FEMI FALANA: IF Donald Trump Lied Over Christian Genocide and Hates Africa then We Dedicate the Over Forty Massacred Owo Catholics and the Two Slain Ekiti Kings to You and Your Family

Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD                                                        November 7, 2025

In his recent interview Mr. Femi Falana, a renowned legal practitioner of the so-called radical school made the following statements in response to President Donald Trump’s statement of facts on the on-going Genocide against Christians in Nigeria:

“My position is that Mr. Trump has lied to the whole world by alleging Christian genocide in Nigeria without any evidence to back it up. He said about 3,100 Christians have been killed in Nigeria. When you look at the narrative of Mr Trump, and match it with what is on ground, the killers — be it terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, armed robbers and so on and so forth, or people we simply call gunmen — do not care about your religion and many of them care about the ransom that you’re going to pay. So, it’s not about religion.”

As a senior advocate of Nigeria we had expected Mr. Femi Falana to tell us the actual figure of the victims if he considers the 3,100 presented by President Donald Trump false. To sensible Nigerian Christians and not legal drunkards like Femi Falana, President Donald Trump can only be wrong on the ground of underestimation not overestimation, because over fifty thousand Christians have been slaughtered since 2009.

As a senior advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana should have given us the legal or political definition of the word: “Genocide” instead of denying what he cannot explain or was ashamed to explain.

We have two major sources of definition of the term “Genocide.” The first is Article II of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as ratified by UN General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948; and the second, Part 2, Article 6 of the 17 July 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Article II of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide states inter alia:

“In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Part 2, Article 6 of the 17 July 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines the crime of Genocide as follows:

“For the purpose of this Statute, “genocide” means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group;  (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Article 7 (1) of the same Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court goes further to define “Crimes against humanity” in the following words:

1. For the purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: (a) Murder; (b) Extermination; (c) Enslavement; (d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population; imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; (f) Torture; (g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; (h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; (i) Enforced disappearance of persons; (j) The crime of apartheid; (k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.”

So we can see that within the context of the Nigerian situation, we are not only talking of the Genocide but also the Crime against humanity. If some Muslim elements were killed in the course of genocide against Christians, it does not in any manner invalidate the case of genocide.

Proverbs 19:5 tells us that, “A false witness will not escape punishment, neither will the one who tells lies. So Mr. Femi Falana, wait for your punishment together with your family. I pray that the same fate that befell those Christians, whom you deny their killing today, will befall you and any Christian who stands up to deny the existence of genocide in Nigeria against Christians. This is an issue of blood and neither wine nor water. May those who deny the death of our brethren receive the vengeance of their innocent blood.

Indeed if Femi Falana is not a disgrace to his law profession and in the same token his accolade of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, let him publicly tell Nigerians what the word “Genocide” stands for outside the above definitions and, why it does not apply to the killing of Christians in both North and South. Nigeria has passed the stage where people like Femi Falana would think that their artificial popularity translates their false statements to laws onto the people. If Femi Falana is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, that is for the Nigerian courts and nothing more.

“Passing Six is not Common Sense”, our people often say. Femi Falana has passing six but lacks the least rudiment of commonsense. He spoke as if he was in a court room where his silk-protected lies are accepted as legal truth. He spoke as someone who has no basic knowledge of introductory elements of international politics and, lacks the basic precept of the doctrine of “The Responsibility to Protect”, even within his close-circuited knowledge of Nigerian local laws.

Yes! I am an Igbo man. But I am an Igbo man with a difference. I am from Delta State which was part of Western Region of Nigeria like Femi Falana’s current Ekiti home-State. As westerners guided by the noble cause of Awoism, we have a common culture of value judgment founded on sacred truth driven by unspoiled ancestral heirloom. Our concept of value judgment is anchored on our customs and tradition. This explains why it is easier for me to deal with a Yoruba man than my Igbo brother from the Southeast.

If I say Femi Falana has betrayed his ancestral heirloom therefore, I am perfectly correct, because he lied against both the living and the dead. He bore false witness against the over forty innocent Catholic worshippers slaughtered by Muslim bandits during Pentecost Day Mass of Sunday June 5, 2022 at Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church Owo, Ondo State.  Femi Falana made mockery of the people of Esun-Ekiti and Imojo-Ekiti whose monarchs— Oba David Ogunsakin and Oba Olatunde Olusola were slaughtered in cold-blood in their homeland on January 29, 2024 by the same jihadist Fulani herdsmen and bandits.

I first knew Mr. Femi Falana in the late 1980s as an undergraduate student of University of Nigeria, Nsukka when he came to represent University of Nigeria Students Union during an inquiry. I believe he was then working in Gani Fawehinmi Chambers. His body language then was that of an opportunistic young servant who was making every effort to outwit the fame of his master Chief Gani Fawehinmi. But has he been able to achieve half-way of Fawehinmi’s colossal legal achievements? The answer is no.

Femi Falana has always been a chameleon of civil rights activism, who during the hey-days of NADECO pro-democracy struggles, was busy appropriating foreign financial contributions for pro-democracy struggles through dummy NGOs and, scavenging for inappropriate briefs from detained activists, while others were in the battle-field.

It could be remembered that Femi Falana was both critical of the ruling APC and their Presidential Candidate now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu before the 2023 Presidential election, but was threatened to fall in line otherwise his wife would be denied the status of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). It was from that moment he became the unofficial senior advocate for the ruling Islamic Federal Republic of Nigeria.

I have been in the civil rights struggles since my days in High school at Anglican Boys Grammar School, Akwukwu-Igbo, Delta State and, I have learnt ever since to understand the moral heartbeat of anybody professing to be civil or human rights activist. I worked closely with Dr. Frederick Faseun and Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, both of whom were my mentors and on whose spirits I still anchor my present struggles. They were dedicated to the core, proudly and patriotically Yoruba, objectively driven with untethered sincerity and profoundly nationalistic. Femi Falana is the direct opposite of these noble virtues.

If Dr. Frederick Faseun were to be alive today, no single Fulani herdsman or Muslim bandit would have remained in Yorubaland today and of course, people like Liar Femi Falana and the scam prophet of the Devil called Primate Elijah Ayodele, would not have made a single remark denying genocide against Christians in Nigeria. They know what would have happened to them.

Dr. Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe is the Odogwu (Traditional Generalissimo) of Ibusa, Delta State & President, International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria (ICAC-GEN). He was formerly Director, Centre for Igbo Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He lives in exile in Manila, Republic of the Philippines. Email: Nwaezeigwe.Genocideafrica@gmail.com Visit our: https://icac-gen.org to understand the core reason of my struggles and exile in Republic of the Philippines. He is the author of: THE AFRICAN THEATER OF THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT: Studies in Arab Neo-Colonialism in Black Africa Washington DC: Academica Press Inc., 2019 & Over ten other books.