The Save Nigeria Group (SNG) USA expresses grave outrage and deep alarm over Nigeria’s rapidly deteriorating security situation, marked by relentless terrorist attacks, mass kidnappings, targeted killings, and credible allegations of internal compromise within the nation’s security architecture.
In a press statement signed by Stephen OSEMWEGIE President Save Nigeria Group USA and Victor Onyeka Ben
Director of MediaSave Nigeria Group USA, said the group is particularly appalled by disturbing reports from Kwara State indicating that a captured Fulani Islamist militant, with an Identification card confirming him as a members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) allegedly confessed to receiving weapons and logistical support traceable to state-linked security channels, including the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), headed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
The group said “If these allegations are even partially true, they constitute a monumental betrayal of public trust, a catastrophic breach of national security, and potential crimes against humanity. In any functioning democracy, such revelations would immediately trigger emergency parliamentary hearings, independent investigations, and the suspension of implicated officials. Instead, the Nigerian Government’s response has been dangerous silence, reinforcing public fear, distrust, and the growing perception of institutional impunity.”
The group also said Nigeria today faces a systemic security collapse, evidenced by repeated mass kidnappings ofschoolchildren and worshippers, persistent attacks on Christian communities and vulnerable Muslim populations, coordinated violence across Niger, Kogi, Kwara, Benue, and Plateau States, near-total absence of accountability for perpetrators and their enablers.
“This pattern reflects not isolated criminality, but a widespread and systematic failure of state protection, with hallmarks of religious persecution and ethnic cleansing, particularly in the Middle Belt.
The group went further to demand as follows
” 1- Immediate Suspension of NSA Nuhu
We call on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to demonstrate leadership and moral courage by immediately suspending Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, along with any other officials named or implicated in these allegations, pending the outcome of a full, transparent, and independent investigation. No official is above scrutiny when national security and human lives are at stake.
2. Independent National and International Investigation
We demand a credible, independent investigation, with international security and human-rights participation, into:
• Allegations of arming, shielding, or enabling terrorist groups
• Security-sector complicity or gross negligence
• Crimes amounting to religious persecution, mass displacement, and crimes against humanity
3. International Criminal Court (ICC) Alert
We formally place the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, on notice. The scale, persistence, and pattern of violence in Nigeria—particularly where state complicity or willful failure is alleged—meets the threshold for international criminal review.
4. Immediate Rescue of All Kidnapped Victims
The Federal Government must deploy all instruments of state power to immediately rescue:
• The 37 ECWA church members kidnapped in Kogi State on Sunday, December 14, 2025
• The remaining 165 Catholic schoolchildren still held captive following the mass abduction at St. Mary’s Catholic School, Niger State
While we acknowledge the rescue of approximately 100 children, partial success does not absolve failure when children and worshippers remain in captivity.
5. Protection of At-Risk Communities
We demand an urgent, all-of-government security surge to protect communities in Benue and Plateau States, where credible intelligence points to planned large-scale Christmas Day terrorist attacks. Failure to act proactively will amount to criminal negligence.
We further condemn in the strongest possible terms the brutal killing of 12 tin miners in Bokkos Local Government Area, Plateau State, on December 16, 2025. These were civilians engaged in lawful work. Enough is enough. The killings must stop—now.
6. Emergency Humanitarian Response
We call for urgent federal and international food aid for the millions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) across Nigeria and neighboring countries. While Save Nigeria Group USA has conducted food-relief interventions this past week at a few IDP camps in different States of Nigeria, the magnitude of hunger and displacement has overwhelmed private and civil-society efforts, particularly during this festive season.
7. Public Disclosure of Terrorism Sponsors
SNG USA reiterates its firm demand that the Federal Government of Nigeria immediately publish the names of all individuals, entities, and networks identified as sponsors, financiers, or enablers of terrorism in Nigeria.
Successive governments have acknowledged the existence of such lists, yet have refused to name names or prosecute offenders, fueling impunity and public distrust. A government that claims to be fighting terrorism cannot continue to shield terror sponsors.
8. Presidential Address to the Nation
We demand that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu immediately address the nation on the escalating terrorist violence, mass kidnappings, and killings.
This address must:
• Acknowledge the full scale of the crisis
• Outline clear, time-bound security actions
• Address allegations of internal compromise
• Assure Nigerians that no official or financier of terror is above the law
Silence from the Presidency at this critical moment is unacceptable and risks being interpreted as indifference, abdication of responsibility, or tacit tolerance of impunity “.