Ted Cruz, United States Senator has vowed to publicly establish Nigerian authorities officers he claims are complicit within the killing of Christians throughout the nation.
The Republican lawmaker made the declaration on Tuesday by way of his official X deal with, reaffirming his dedication to holding accountable these he accuses of enabling or taking part in non secular persecution.
Cruz, a former U.S. presidential candidate and a long-time advocate for non secular freedom, mentioned he has been pushing laws to redesignate Nigeria as a Nation of Specific Concern (CPC) — a classification reserved for nations accused of extreme violations of non secular liberty.
In his publish, the senator said, “I’ve been pushing laws to designate Nigeria a CPC and to impose sanctions on the Nigerian officers accountable.”
He counseled U.S. President Donald Trump for what he described as “management in imposing the designation, and extra broadly, for preventing to cease the homicide of Christians in Nigeria.”
Cruz added that he would quickly make public the names of Nigerian officers allegedly concerned within the persecution of Christians.
“Now we must always take the subsequent step and maintain Nigerian officers accountable. I intend to be very express about who they’re within the coming days and weeks,” he wrote.
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The lawmaker’s feedback come amid renewed debate in Washington over Nigeria’s human rights file and the Biden administration’s 2021 resolution to delist the nation from the CPC class, which had been reinstated underneath Trump in 2020.
It was learnt that human rights teams and Christian advocacy organisations in the USA have constantly urged Washington to revive Nigeria’s CPC designation, citing an upsurge in assaults on Christian communities and what they describe because the Nigerian authorities’s failure to reply successfully.
The Nigerian authorities has repeatedly denied accusations of non secular persecution, sustaining that the violence in elements of the nation is pushed by criminality, terrorism, and resource-based conflicts relatively than faith.
