Senior Advocates of Nigeria criticised the threat by former United States President Donald Trump to deploy American troops to Nigeria over alleged killings of Christians, describing it as an invasion and a violation of the country’s sovereignty under international law.
According to The Punch, Trump had, on Friday, designated Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” over alleged Christian genocide and subsequently threatened to send U.S. troops to eliminate Islamic terrorists said to be killing Christians in the country.
He warned that if the Nigerian Government continued to allow the killings, the United States would halt all aid and assistance to Nigeria and might intervene militarily to wipe out the perpetrators.
However, Chief Mike Ahamba (SAN) described the reported killings as deeply disturbing and observed that the Federal Government needed to take decisive action to end them in order to prevent any form of external intervention.
“I don’t know under which law they are saying it, but if the killings of Christians continue and the government of Nigeria does not stop it, then a stronger nation can step in. This is the way I look at it,” he said.
Ahamba emphasised that any intervention must be invited by Nigeria, warning that when one country enters another to fight it amounts to an invasion and that it was always preferable for a country to be invited before intervening; he added that if foreign powers intervened without invitation despite being aware that something wrong was happening, a situation similar to what occurred in Iraq could arise. View, More,
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