- Ogebe Says Army Killing Women, NAF Benin Republic Bombing During Delegation’s Visit Is Double Disaster
- History repeats itself just like soldiers shot #ENDSARS protesters during 2020 U.S. delegation visit
The US Congressional Delegation has denied news reports alleging that they backpedaled on Christian genocide claims after their fact-finding visit to Nigeria.
In a reply to International human rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe, Legislative Aide to Mr Riley M. Moore stated: “Thanks, Emmanuel. Flagging the full context of the Congressman’s remarks: https://x.com/RepRileyMoore/status/1998013619439628486?s=20
“There were concrete steps and actions discussed at length, that if fully executed, I believe will enhance security across the country for all Nigerians, disrupt and destroy terrorist organizations in the Northeast and stop the killing of Christians (a specific concern for @POTUS and myself) – particularly in the Middle Belt of the country.”
This was in response to Ogebe’s email
From: Glo Counsel
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2025 11:42 AM
Just arriving Abuja and wanted to flag for you this reports re-your Congressman which I doubt to be true.
You may want to disclaim them if so.
Nigeria is inglorious for propaganda warfare.
BREAKING: U.S. Lawmaker Rep. Riley Moore Applauds Nigeria’s Security Gains, Rejects “Christian Genocide” Claims
“Moore, who was part of a U.S. congressional delegation that met National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu in Abuja described discussions as “productive and positive,” noting that both sides agreed on actionable steps to neutralize extremist networks and strengthen protection for vulnerable communities.
He particularly praised the rescue of 100 abducted Catholic schoolchildren in Niger State, calling it “a clear sign of increasing responsiveness and capability.” According to him, the narrative pushed by some advocacy groups abroad suggesting that Christians are being systematically exterminated by the state is “misleading and inconsistent with realities on the ground.”
Full news :
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Said Ogebe: “The lesson Nigerians can’t seem to learn is that you can’t fight terrorism with propaganda. Even deradicalization hasn’t worked, “technical defeat” didn’t work and “genocide denial” isn’t a winning strategy either.
“What I found irritating was that although the Congressional part of the delegation had left, the State Department component was still on ground. So when you misrepresent them, they’ll obviously know.
“But for me the truly shocking missteps of the administration were
1. The massacre of a reported nine women protesters by the military while they were here fact-finding genocide by Islamists terrorists. The impression created by this incident is that the government are also killing citizens not just non-state actors.
2. The Nigerian Airforce aerial interdiction in Benin Republic, which violated Nigerian law on parliamentary war authorization and international law on overflight authorization of foreign territorial airspace, also put at risk the U.S. delegation’s air travel by U.S. Air Force gulfstream passenger jet.
“For the record, when Trump authorized U.S. special forces to rescue American citizen Phil Walton who was kidnapped in Niger and then spirited to Nigeria, their aircraft was stopped mid air during the operation because Kash Patel (now FBI Director) had failed to obtain air space entry permit for them.
“Per media reports, “ Patel has been criticized for his handling of a sensitive operation aimed at freeing American captives. Two weeks after the Yemen hostage deal, Patel found himself in the middle of another high-risk operation. Philip Walton was a 27-year-old American who had been seized by armed men at his farm in Niger, near the Nigerian border.
“The kidnappers transported Walton to Nigeria and demanded a million dollars in ransom. There were also indications that the kidnappers were contemplating turning him over to a terrorist group operating in the region. Patel was accompanying President Trump on a visit to Fort Bragg, the military installation in North Carolina that is home to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. While they were there, Patel received intelligence that Walton would be held at an encampment for several hours, enough time to stage a daring Seal Team 6 raid to rescue the hostage. Mr. Trump signed off on the operation, which involved parachuting into Northern Nigeria and trekking for miles to the compound where Walton was being held.
“Then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper had greenlit the plan, but there were still some final questions that needed to be answered before he could give the go order – primarily whether the Nigerian government had given the U.S. permission to use its air space. According to Esper’s memoir, Patel, who was the senior director for counterterrorism at the time, assured Defense Department officials that the State Department had received the necessary permission from the Nigerians. But Patel’s information was incorrect: the Nigerians had not given their approval.
“By this time, Air Force planes carrying the Navy SEALs were in the air just a few miles from the Nigerian border. Esper wrote in his memoir, “A Sacred Oath,” he realized the government had to make an agonizing decision. He told the White House they could go forward with the operation and risk having their planes shot down — or abort the mission and miss a crucial opportunity to save Walton. But at the last minute, word came that the State Department had received clearance to use Nigerian airspace. The mission went forward, was executed flawlessly, and Walton was returned to safety.
“But Esper and other officials were furious at the role Patel had played, believing he had inserted himself into the operation in violation of regular protocol, and then nearly botched it by transmitting false information. According to Esper’s account, Patel’s carelessness carried significant risk for the SEALs.
‘”I was concerned that being packed in an aircraft burning holes in the sky for an extra hour or so would wear on the special operators, that it might affect their readiness somehow,” he wrote in his memoir.
Esper also wrote of the incident, “My team suspected Patel made the approval story up, but they didn’t have all the facts.”
“Patel has denied Esper’s version of events. In his own book, “Government Gangsters,” Patel portrays Esper as a “deep-state” actor who “always seemed to be subverting the president’s agenda,” including by putting up obstacles to counterterrorism raids in Africa and the Middle East.” He argued that Mr. Trump had the ultimate authority to order the mission.” https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/fbi-insider-kash-patel-hostage-rescue/
“From the foregoing you can imagine how a nation like America took permission from Nigeria before coming to rescue it’s own citizen while a whole Nigerian Airforce didn’t take permission from a neigbor and then landed there and allowing itself to be detained. The Delegation will be asking itself – are these people we can work with for real? Like seriously?
“This is why I say these incidents were a double barreled disaster for the FGN at this critical time.
“As we recorded then, while “State Department Assistant Secretary Robert Destro from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and Assistant Secretary Dr. Denise Natali from the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations,…The necessary focus on the twin evils of Boko Haram and Fulani militia terrorists has been distracted by the evils of security forces themselves as we all saw last week while in Nigeria. The timing couldn’t have been better!
“Nigerians now have a terror trifecta or “tripod of terror” killing them – two distinct non-state actors and then the state. The US delegation having witnessed the Black Tuesday Lekki massacre of dancing young protestors like we did must hold Nigeria to account. If Nigeria can’t stop the terrorists, it can at least stop terrorizing it’s citizens.”
RELEASE: US MISSION TEAM CAUGHT UP IN NIGERIAN #ENDSARS MELEE URGES GLOBAL ACTION TO END ATROCITIES
Highlights:
“THIS REVOLUTION WAS TELEVISED“ – US NIGERIA LAW GROUP’S FACT-FINDING REPORT ON NIGERIA #EndSARS PROTEST SAYS CLEAR EVIDENCE EXISTS OF ARMY’S MASSACRE
– NIGERIA IN LOW GRADE REVOLUTION
– Visiting Humanitarian team from US reports on #EndSARS protests, massacres, warns Government arming against citizens (exclusive video)
– October 29, 2020 Washington USA
A humanitarian mission on its first post-Covid trip to Nigeria was caught up amidst the most significant sustained protests in a generation.
Mission objective was to conduct factfinding and humanitarian relief in northwest, northeast and north central Nigeria. However due to the degenerating security situation, the itinerary was restricted to north central Nigeria with the mission scope extended to include #EndSARS (#ES).
BACKGROUND
Nigeria is the world’s third most terrorized state at the hands of non-state actors and violent extremist organizations according to the Global Terrorism Index.
The #ENDSARS protest draws attention to state terrorism in the form of police brutality against innocent young citizens.
The scale of the systemic decades long extrajudicial killings far eclipses the fatalities from terrorist groups Boko Haram and Fulani militia at various times the 2nd and 4th deadliest terrorist groups in the world.
The situation summary therefore is that between state and non-state actors, Nigeria’s youth are sandwiched in a crucible of senseless deaths.
Apart from corruption and misgovernance that have made Nigeria the world’s poverty capital, Nigeria also has record infant and maternal mortality rates and out-of-school children.
From birth to death, life expectancy in Nigeria is brief and brutish and government is a cause not a cure of these underwhelming indices of failure.” See full report https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bxmzn5iwo/?mibextid=wwXIfr
It beggars belief that five years after #ENDSARS massacre another Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor witnessed the same thing while visiting.
Nigeria must hold those responsible accountable. We can’t have a situation where soldiers who shoot at terrorists are court martialed and dismissed while soldiers who shoot peaceful civilians get away with murder.
@Emmanuel Ogebe, ESQ
