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How dependent is Nigeria on support from the United States · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump says he's ordered the US Defense Department to
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  Speaker 1: prepare for potential military action in Nigeria. The US president
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  Speaker 1: accuses Nigeria's government of failing to stop what he claims
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  Speaker 1: is the persecution of Christians by Islamic terrorists. In a
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  Speaker 1: social media post, he said quote, if the Nigerian government
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  Speaker 1: continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will
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  Speaker 1: immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may
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  Speaker 1: very well go into that now disgraced country guns ablazing
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  Speaker 1: to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing
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  Speaker 1: these horrible atrocities. For more, Let's talk to d w's
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  Speaker 1: UA's Idris in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Huays briefly put
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  Speaker 1: this into context for us. Are Christians in fact being
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  Speaker 1: persecuted in Nigeria?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what Muslims and Christians are facing killings by tero
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  Speaker 2: groups in Nigeria, especially in the northwest and not central
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  Speaker 2: where this issue is happening. But none of the groups,
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  Speaker 2: either religion or by tribe have been targeted specifically to say,
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  Speaker 2: the terror groups or armed groups are out looking for
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  Speaker 2: Christian to kill. That is why it is not accepted
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  Speaker 2: even by the citizens that they should look at it
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  Speaker 2: from this angle. Alife is alive. Everybody is being killed
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  Speaker 2: by these Ttero groups and it is ongoing and there
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  Speaker 2: are concerns. So it's not like a persecution because it's
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  Speaker 2: not a religious war u stuaged by any group in
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  Speaker 2: the country.
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  Speaker 1: Amnesty International has made it clear Nigerian authorities have failed
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  Speaker 1: to protect the population in general from violent attacks, which
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  Speaker 1: is of course, is what you just refer to. Why
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  Speaker 1: isn't the government doing more to fight extremist groups and
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  Speaker 1: provide more security.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are several reasons to us who are looking
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  Speaker 2: at it. You have an army that has been complaining
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  Speaker 2: of lack of enough equipment, the welfare is not there.
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  Speaker 2: You hear complaints of several things. Although Nigeria has the
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  Speaker 2: power to stop this kind of carnage, but we have
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  Speaker 2: not seen that happening. So the government has more or
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  Speaker 2: less failed to do that. Because you live in a
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  Speaker 2: country whereby almost every day you hear killings, you see
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  Speaker 2: where terrorists are coming to ruan sacond entire community, and
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  Speaker 2: then you have an army, you have the police and
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  Speaker 2: all they could not stop that until after then you
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  Speaker 2: start issue of negotiation and said, oh, we have rescue
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  Speaker 2: days where a chief days were achieved. That to Ardner
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  Speaker 2: in Nigerian he said, the government has failed in doing
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  Speaker 2: this because of the reasons I enumerated.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious. How has the Nigerian government reacted to Trump's statement.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the first statement by Nigeria's by Donald Trump, the
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  Speaker 2: government came out and reacted on the designation of the
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  Speaker 2: country as a country of concern. But this led us one.
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  Speaker 2: Up to now, we have not heard any reaction from
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  Speaker 2: the government. Maybe they are trying to see it because
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  Speaker 2: a military intervention by a US government is not something
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  Speaker 2: that one can just come out and talk. So we
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  Speaker 2: are still waiting. The Minister appeared on Minister of Information
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  Speaker 2: appeared on one of the international media, but more or
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  Speaker 2: less repeat to what they have said when the team started.
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  Speaker 2: When the President has issued as statement, but it has
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  Speaker 2: escalated to this level.
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  Speaker 1: The US President has also threatened to immediately stop all
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  Speaker 1: aid and assistance to Nigeria. Just give us a sense
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  Speaker 1: of how dependent Nigeria is on support from the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Nigeria is dependent to a certain level on aid from
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  Speaker 2: the United States because between two thousand and three and
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, Nigeria received over
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  Speaker 2: one billion dollars which goes into several sectors where the
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  Speaker 2: government has gap unable to reach, so to wouldraw that
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  Speaker 2: it is going to affect a lot of people if
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  Speaker 2: you will go to hospitals now where people are receiving
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  Speaker 2: treatment in terms of HIV eight, in terms of toberculosis.
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  Speaker 2: Although the government said, oh, we're going to take over
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  Speaker 2: the gap left by the US one top the you
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  Speaker 2: said issue, but that has not happened up till now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be a hitch thing. Especially the
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  Speaker 2: civil society organization and the people that are in need
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  Speaker 2: who rely on it's are going to suffer.
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  Speaker 1: It's critical, is what I'm hearing. That's ah d w's
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  Speaker 1: uas Idris as always many thanks uas
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  Speaker 2: Thank you