US Meeting Exposes Plans To Attack Nigerians On Christmas Day

Delegates to a meeting held in the United States of America have exposed plans to attack Nigerians on Christmas Day

The meeting was convened under the auspices of the humanitarian organisation, Equipping The Persecuted, and it heard of the plot was to kill many people in some northern communities on Christmas Day.

The founder of the organisation, Judd Saul, revealed the plot during a roundtable meeting convened by the International Committee on Nigeria and the African Jewish Alliance.

He told delegates to the meeting, held on Wednesday in Washington DC, United States of America that the terrorists behind the attack on Christmas day were already fanning out their plans.

The meeting was also attended by Congressmen Riley Moore and Chris Smith, Senator James Lankford, and members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, alongside some Nigerian delegation, was chaired by a former congressman, Frank Wolf.

Saul told the delegates: “We got very reliable information that they are weaponising for a Christmas Day massacre. I am imploring the Nigerian government and President Donald Trump to do something so we don’t have a bunch of dead Christians in Nigeria.”

Revealing the planned locations for the planed attack on Christmas Day, he added:

“They are gathering forces around the Plateau and Nasarawa border, along the Nasarawa-Benue border and along the Nasarawa-Kaduna border. They are planning to hit on Christmas Day in Riyom, Bokkos, Kafanchan and Agatu.

According to Punch, Saul had officially communicated the said report his organisation got to the government through Moore.

“All the congressmen at the meeting have been to Nigeria many times. They’ve been involved in this matter since (Bill) Clinton was president.

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“They classified the attackers mostly as terrorists and jihadists. Saul has officially notified the US through Riley, who will be filing a report to President Trump on it,” the source said.

It was also learnt that after the meeting where Saul spoke, a separate closed-door meeting was held where further deliberation took place.

It said a senior officer of the Department of State Services in Abuja confirmed that the agency was aware of the planned attacks on Christmas Day and had commenced preventive measures.

“The service is aware; we have the intelligence report and we are already working on it,” the officer stated in a short conversation.

Given antecedents, assertions of plans to attack Nigerians on Christmas Day is one that should not be taken with levity.

In the recent, hardly any day passes without the nation, recording one incident of religious-related attack or another.

With the Yuletide, there would be increased vehicular and pedestrian movements, just like there would be crowds observing one occasion or another. it is believed that these call for extra vigilance on both the security organistions, religious groups and individuals.