US Congressman Riley Moore has said that Nigerian people do not trust their government.
Moore stated this on Thursday at US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, which is investigating Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’, CPC.
“The Nigerian people don’t trust their government. ‘How can you trust a government that doesn’t show up when you ask them to?
“The Nigerian government must work with the US in cooperation to address these insecurity issues.
“A case that just happened recently in Plateau state. We had a pastor there who warned the Nigerian government that they were under attack. There’s imminent attack forces here in the next 24 hours. Please come and help us.
“The Nigerian government did not only ignore it but put up a press release that it is fake news,” he said.
Moore would be meeting with a delegation of senior members of the Nigerian government, over the devastating insecurity in Nigeria and the US designation of the country as CPC, DAILY POST reports.