The next stage, according to US Senator Ted Cruz, is to identify and punish Nigerian officials, after US President Donald Trump’s classification of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).
According to Channels TV, Cruz is leading the charge to pass the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025, which aims to safeguard Christians and other religious minorities in Nigeria from the pervasive persecution they face.
Following the CPC designation, Trump issued a threat of military action against Nigeria in the event that the country’s officials did not safeguard Christians within.
In response, Senator Cruz stated yesterday on his official X Twitter that he has been advocating for legislation to label Nigeria as a CPC and to penalize Nigerian authorities accountable for religious persecution.
He praised Trump for “fighting to stop the murder of Christians in Nigeria” and the designation.
Cruz claims that the next move would be to publicly name the corrupt Nigerian officials in the upcoming weeks in order to bring them to justice.
In his tweet, he states, “I’ve been pushing legislation to designate Nigeria a CPC and to impose sanctions on the Nigerian officials responsible.”
President Trump, I want to thank you for taking the lead in imposing the designation and, more generally, for working to end the killing of Christians in Nigeria.
We need to hold the Nigerian government to account now. I plan to reveal their identities in the next several days and weeks.
In his statement, Trump
In response to reports of Christian deaths in Nigeria, President Trump designated the nation as a “Country of Particular Concern” over the weekend.
Accusing the slayings of Christians as a “mass slaughter,” Trump stated on Friday on his social media site Truth Social that Christianity is under imminent danger in Nigeria.
In Nigeria, Christians are confronted with a grave danger. Christians are losing their lives in the thousands. He said that “radical Islamists” were to blame for the massacre.
American President Donald Trump further stated that his country “cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening” and ordered an investigation into the incident by House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole and Congressman Riley Moore.
Claims Rejected by Nigeria
Accusations of Christian genocide in Nigeria have been denied by the government of Nigeria on multiple occasions.
“False, baseless, despicable, and divisive” were the words used by the federal administration to characterize the alleged organized genocide against Christians in September.
Mohammed Idris, Nigeria’s minister of information and national orientation, has spoken out against the false portrayal of the country’s instability as a religious war.
It is damaging and incorrect to portray Nigeria’s security problems as an attack on one religion group.
A recent accusation that terrorists in Nigeria are committing a systematic genocide against Christians has been made by certain foreign platforms and online influencers, which the federal government vehemently denies.
Muslims, Christians, and atheists in Nigeria have all been targets of extremist violence, according to Idris.
He claimed that security forces freed approximately 10,000 captives and killed more than 13,500 terrorists between May 2023 and February 2025.
Nigeria has made headway in the war against terrorism, he said, as evidenced by the recent capture of key Ansaru leaders and the conviction of over 700 Boko Haram suspects.
“Regardless of faith, these criminals target all who reject their murderous ideology,” the minister declared.
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