By Jonas Ezieke,
\nThe Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has reacted to the news on airwaves recently on the recent designation of Nigeria as a \u201cCountry of Particular Concern\u201d by the United States of America USA on Sunday, November 9, 2025 saying that there is no ‘Christian Genocide’ in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
It would be recalled that the President Donald Trump of the USA recently decried the spate of killings in Nigeria by unnamed armed groups noting with concerns the killing of Christian by some radical religious fundamentalists in the country and designated Nigeria as a disgraced nation<\/p>\n
The Secretary-General NSCIA Prof.Is-haq Oloyede who addressed newsmen after the Expanded General Purpose Committee (EGPC) meeting held in Abuja on behalf of the Nigerian Muslim Ummah said the group condemn the recent threat against the sovereignty of Nigeria as a nation. <\/p>\n
He said that the NSCIA have not been emphasizing the killings of Muslims because they do not see it as a religious war, but a national security issue. <\/p>\n
He said: “The world is aware that some Islamophobic and unpatriotic Nigerians had authored a dangerous script, promoted it in Western circles especially in the United States and got the attention of the highest levels of the United States government, which are erroneously made to believe that there is a “Christian genocide” in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
“When the U.S. President, Mr Donald Trump labeled our country “disgraced”, every right-thinking Nigerian was concerned because an ally that is determined to help a sovereign country to \u201ccompletely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities\u201d would offer to assist and collaborate with the country and not use such language to describe a country it aims to partner in wiping out the terrorists”. <\/p>\n
The Islamic religious group said that a number of countries including China, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar.have also been designated \u201cCountries of Particular Concern\u201d but the present context of \u201cwhat Nigeria will not like\u201d suggests that the plan is a pretext to destabilize our country..<\/p>\n
The NSCIA said that it reaffirms that there is no \u201cChristian genocide\u201d in Nigeria as it noted that Under Article II of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 9 and Article 6 of the Rome Statute 11, the crime is defined by a critical \u201cmental element\u201d known as dolus specialis.<\/p>\n
This according to the group is the specific \u201cintent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such\u201d. There is nothing of such in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The Professor of Islamic Studies said that for the avoidance of doubt, what Nigeria faces is a complex and tragic perennial security crisis that brings immeasurable pain to all its citizens, regardless of faith or ethnic persuasion.<\/p>\n
He further revealed that from Katsina to Borno and from Benue to Plateau, as well as in Kaduna and Kwara, Nigeria bleeds through gruesome savagery against Muslims and Christians, Imams and priests. <\/p>\n
He pointed out that non-partisan experts have refuted this blackmail and Amnesty International, which methodically investigated the insecurity in Nigeria, had stated that there is \u201cno evidence of a religious motivation\u201d to characterise it as genocide. <\/p>\n
The Islamic Supreme Council called on all especially the international community and the press to reject what it termed false, dangerous, and destabilising narrative. <\/p>\n
It further calls on the Nigerian government to redouble its efforts to protect all its citizens, regardless of faith, destroy the bandits and terrorists, expose and hold the domestic instigators of this divisive lie accountable, and shame the foreign lobbyists against Nigeria. <\/p>\n
The religious organization commended the resolve of the Nigerian government to use dignity and honour to engage the USA and the rest of the international community on how to eliminate terrorism and banditry in Nigeria and, indeed, in the West-African sub-region. <\/p>\n
They also urged the Nigeria authorities to urgent President Trump to retract branding Nigeria a \u201cdisgraced country\u201d and rather assist the nation with credible intelligence, critical logistics and human capacity development to enable the country overcome insecurity in different parts of Nigeria. <\/p>\n
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