United States President Donald Trump has claimed that the US military played a key role in ending the killings of Christians in Nigeria.
Trump made the remark on Friday during an event in Washington, where he highlighted his administration’s security operations and counterterrorism efforts in different parts of the world.
According to the US President, American intervention in Nigeria significantly reduced attacks allegedly targeting Christian communities, particularly in areas affected by insurgency and violent extremism.
“As you know, we recently struck Nigeria and largely ended the slaughter of great Christian populations,” he said.
The Republican president said the security situation in Nigeria had been dire before the alleged intervention, claiming that thousands of innocent people had been killed in brutal attacks.
“They have a great Christian population. They were being butchered… butchered. Thousands and thousands of people were being killed, children, women, old people, just being slaughtered, hacked to death,” he added.
