Anambra State governor Charles Soludo has said that the case in the southeast is pathetic alleging that Christians are actually responsible for the killings of fellow Christians .
“The role of the Nigerian government in protecting lives and properties, the record needs to be clear. I think it is a matter of conversation.
“As a country, America has its own rights to have its own views about what is going on elsewhere, but when it comes to what it does, I am sure it must also do what it does in terms of its own response within the realm of its own international law.
“But there is a deeper conversation. Our introspection about what goes on in the country. In this part of the world, Eastern Nigeria, it is not religious.
“People are killing themselves, Christians killing Christians, the people in the bushes are Emmanuel, Peter, John, all Christian names, and they have maimed and killed thousands of our youths, it has nothing to do with religion.
“Certainly, if Nigeria requests any assistance for the military, technology and hardware to deal with insurgency, then it is within Nigeria’s call.”
“You have police men killing some blacks… I remember the black Lives Matter protest, and somebody will say maybe Africa should go and invade America because blacks are being killed, I am not quite sure because that is the way I see it.
“I think there is a need for deeper conversation. It must end in conversation, and I am sure the government of Nigeria will respond very robustly on behalf of Nigeria. Nigeria is such a big country, and the government is doing a whole lot to safeguard the country.
“In this part of the country, we are 95 per cent Christians, and around the southeast are Christians. The people in the bushes killing people bear Christian names; it is wider than the categorisation of Christians, Muslims.. Nigeria will overcome and it will end in conversation.”