US Lawmaker Knocks Nigerian Govt As Report Claims Fulani Militants Slaughtered More Victims Than Boko Haram, ISIS

 

Moore declared that the findings confirm a horrific reality: Fulani militants have officially overtaken Boko Haram and ISIS (ISWAP) as the deadliest terrorist threat operational in Nigeria.

The United States Representative, Riley Moore, has launched a scathing diplomatic offensive against the Nigerian government, blasting the ongoing systemic butchery of Christian agrarian communities by radical Fulani herdsmen militias as a “moral catastrophe” that America will no longer tolerate.

Reacting on Saturday, May 30, 2026, to a newly released intelligence dossier from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Rep. Moore declared that the findings confirm a horrific reality: Fulani militants have officially overtaken Boko Haram and ISIS (ISWAP) as the deadliest terrorist threat operational in Nigeria.

Taking to his official X (formerly Twitter) handle, the influential American lawmaker—who recently led a bipartisan congressional fact-finding delegation to Nigeria’s volatile Middle Belt—asserted that Washington is aggressively re-engineering its foreign policy to force absolute accountability from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

“The latest USCIRF report further details a horrific truth that @MarioDB and I revealed in our report to @POTUS,” Representative Moore stated flatly.

“Fulani militants killed more people in Nigeria over the past year than Boko Haram or ISIS. Innocent Christians are bearing the brunt of this violent persecution.”

Moore, who recently co-authored the Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026, credited President Donald J. Trump for reversing years of “shameful indifference” by previous U.S. administrations.

The lawmaker revealed that following a classified joint report delivered directly to the White House alongside Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Mario Díaz-Balart (@MarioDB), the U.S. government has officially integrated specific combat protocols against armed Fulani syndicates into its global Counterterrorism Strategy.

Sending a clear warning that America’s alliance with Nigeria is now strictly contingent on the protection of religious minorities, Moore stated:

“President Trump rightly recognised the urgent need to protect Nigerian Christians by specifically addressing this threat in the administration’s Counterterrorism Strategy. America is a Christian nation. We must continue to stand with those who are persecuted for their faith and hold these terrorists accountable.”

The statistical horrors detailed in the USCIRF report were backed by international human rights organization, Open Doors.

Commenting on the terrifying surge in coordinated night raids, mass displacements, and the expansion of illicit slave rings across rural Nigerian outposts, Open Doors Chief Executive Officer, Henrietta Blyth, exposed the raw human toll of the unfolding carnage.

“My heart has been broken as I have heard stories from women and men who have seen their beloved family members butchered in front of them or carried off into a life of slavery,” Blyth revealed in a heartbreaking testimony.

SaharaReporters reports that the findings of the USCIRF report come amid relentless, multi-year outcries over the Nigerian government’s persistent failure to disarm radical Fulani herdsmen militias, despite their documented usage of military-grade firearms, including AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, which are strictly illegal under Nigerian law.

The bloodletting — frequently downplayed by consecutive Nigerian administrations as mere “farmers-herders clashes” driven by climate change and grazing rights — has systematically devastated farming communities across Plateau, Benue, Kaduna, Taraba, Zamfara and Nasarawa states.

Congressional investigators found that the failure of Nigerian security agencies to swiftly respond to early warning signals has displaced over 500,000 people, pushing families into overcrowded, under-resourced Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, while their ancestral lands are permanently grabbed by the attackers.

With the U.S. House Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Affairs now pushing bills to look into classifying armed Fulani militias as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and withholding certain U.S. security funds, the Tinubu administration is facing unprecedented pressure to drop its culture of denial and halt the slaughter, or risk severe international isolation and economic sanctions from Washington.

SOURCE: SAHARA REPORTERS