The Nigerian Senate is set to debate a motion aimed at countering what it describes as a “dangerous and misleading narrative” portraying Nigeria’s security crisis as a targeted “Christian genocide.”
The motion, was sponsored by Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (Borno South) and co-sponsored by Senators Sani Musa (Niger East), Magatakarda Wamako (Sokoto North), Ibrahim Bomai (Yobe South), and Ahmed Aliyu Wadada (Nasarawa West), among others.
While acknowledging that Christian communities have suffered horrific attacks in different parts of the country, Ndume warned that describing the crisis as a campaign of religious extermination was false, dangerous, and capable of igniting sectarian hatred.