As criminal elements continue to kidnap, torture and kill many Nigerians in the name of banditry and terrorism, popular former Mayor of Blanco, Texas, United States, Mike Arnold, has lamented that it’s curious that the Federal Government and Sultan haven’t tackled insecurity headlong in Nigeria.
In an Exclusive interview with Sunday Telegraph, Arnold, who has made 16 trips to Nigeria, investigating attacks he classified as Christian genocide, added that Nigeria’s terror map closely overlaps with illegal mineral mining around the country.
He said: “I’ve seen where the terror map closely overlaps with the mineral map. That is not what is causing people to pick up AK-47s and kill their neighbours, but it is a large part of funding it and funding the corruption and complicity that allow it to continue.”
The founder, African Arise School and author of Nigeria Radical Islam in the War for Global Order, lamented that China has documented cases of illegal mining.
“If you look at the reports, it’s hard to pin down, but as many as 100,000 or more Chinese nationals are operating in Nigeria. When you talk to people in the Middle Belt, who have dealt with them, they say it’s chilling how predatory and soulless they operate.
So yes, globally and in Nigeria, China is a leading predatory extractor of illegal minerals around the world. “I have used that terminology, but I always qualify it.
I’ve been very clear about this: it’s an Islamic conquest, and that includes a great deal of killing. If you look at the definition of genocide, it doesn’t require that the killing be exclusive to one group.
There is an intentional effort to wipe out Christians. That is genocide. There is more going on than that, but one facet of it is a Christian genocide. If you look at even my original report from October, it said Christians and others including peaceful Muslims who refuse to join”.
He insisted on the presence of systematic elimination of Christians in Nigeria, saying “This is documented across numerous instances. I’ll mention one in particular.
They pulled over a bus at a roadblock and ordered everyone out. They separated men from women, Christians from Muslims. The first thing they did was kill the Christian men. That is targeted, and that’s intentional.
That is genocide. “Then they went to the Muslims and said, ‘join us or die,’ and the ones who said no, they killed. I believe a monument should be built for those people. Then, they sold the women into sex slavery. So, yes, by definition, that is Christian genocide.”
