🇳🇬 The Real Genocide in Nigeria: Against the Poor, Not Just Christians or Muslims

Nigeria has endured years of violence from bandit attacks, insurgencies, herder–farmer clashes, and political killings. Recently, some voices in the United States have claimed that a “Christian genocide” is happening here. But the truth is deeper and more complex.

This isn’t a war against Christians alone — it’s a war against the poor and powerless, whether they pray in a church or a mosque.

⚖️ Who Is Really Dying in Nigeria

In Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, and Kaduna, entire farming communities have been wiped out — both Christian and Muslim. In Borno and Yobe, Boko Haram and ISWAP kill Muslims who reject their ideology as brutally as they target Christians. Bandits kidnap children from both Islamic and Christian schools in the North. The real victims are ordinary Nigerians — farmers, traders, students, and families abandoned by the same political class that promised them protection.

🏛️ The Political Class Is to Blame

Every government, past and present, has failed to secure its citizens. Billions in “security votes” vanish, yet soldiers remain underpaid and communities defenceless while politicians grow richer. Instead of fixing the crisis, politicians use religion and ethnicity as shields. They exploit people’s pain to win sympathy abroad and votes at home. The real genocide is economic, political, and systemic — a slow destruction caused by corruption, neglect, and bad governance.

🗞️ Why the U.S. Narrative Is Misleading

Recently, some American commentators and organizations have claimed that Christians are being systematically exterminated in Nigeria. But fact-checkers, Nigerian officials, and independent journalists have debunked these exaggerated claims. Even the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says the violence cuts across faith lines. So why does Washington push one-sided stories? Is it genuine concern — or a distraction from their silence on Gaza, where thousands are being killed with U.S.-supplied weapons? If the U.S. truly stands for justice, why ignore Gaza while spreading division in Nigeria?

❗ What Nigeria Needs Now

Accountability for leaders who allow banditry and corruption to thrive. Support for communities rebuilding their lives. Unity across faith and ethnicity, because both Christians and Muslims suffer under the same failed system. Until Nigeria’s leaders are held accountable for betraying their people, foreign narratives — from the U.S. or anywhere else — will only distract from the truth.