Riley Moore: US, Nigeria close to security framework to tackle Boko Haram, ISIS

Riley Moore says the federal government and the United States are close to reaching an agreement on a “strategic security framework” aimed at tackling terrorism in Nigeria.

The US Congressman, who recently visited Nigeria alongside some of his colleagues, said the delegation had “positive conversations” with the Nigerian government.

In an X post published alongside a short video clip of his interview on Fox News, the lawmaker said that during his visit, he met with some victims of terrorism, whose family members were gruesomely killed by “Islamic radicals”.

Moore said he will submit a report to US President Donald Trump to outline how to work with the Nigerian government to “end the slaughter of our brothers and sisters in Christ”.

“What I witnessed during my trip to Nigeria was heartbreaking,” he said.

“I met a woman who witnessed all five of her children murdered in front of her. Another woman lost her husband and two daughters and had her unborn child killed.

“We did have positive conversations with the Nigerian government, and I believe we are close to a strategic security framework to address both the ISIS and Boko Haram threat in the north-east, as well as the genocide against Christians by the radical Fulani Muslims in the Middle Belt.”

While in Nigeria, Moore and some members of the US Congress, including representatives Mario Díaz-Balart, Norma Torres, Scott Franklin, and Juan Ciscomani, visited some communities in the north.

During the visit, the delegation met with Nuhu Ribadu, the national security adviser (NSA), in his office in Abuja, the country’s capital.

Moore has been one of the US politicians insistent on claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria.

On November 7, he introduced a resolution in the US house of representatives, “condemning the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria and supporting President Donald J. Trump’s announcement to officially designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern”.