Thank you so much for the time.
Yes, as the former speaker answered quite correctly, it's hard to simplify what's going on in Nigeria. My name is Mohammed Usman. Everybody would think I'm a Muslim. My dad is a Muslim and my mom is a Christian. I have five brothers and five sisters. My sisters are all Christians. One of my brothers I know for sure is a Christian. The others, I don't know what they are. That's how a lot of communities in Benue are. That's how Benue is. I think a lot of times we tend to classify people on religion based on their tribe or their name. In Islam, if you're not a Muslim, you're a Christian. You're not any other thing.
Nigeria's problem is a failure of the government. When Boko Haram started, or when they got big, the president was a Christian. They took him out and put in a no-nonsense president, a former general named Buhari, who was going to tackle this issue. His vice-president was a pastor. Buhari was incapacitated for a few months, over a few years, and the vice-president did nothing about it. The current president's wife is an ordained minister. She's a pastor.
In Nigeria, religion is a problem, but when people are talking about the main problem—
