US lawmaker: We know Nigerian officials enabling Christian persecution

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United States Senator Ted Cruz has claimed that Washington has identified Nigerian government officials responsible for creating conditions that enable the killing of Christians in the country and possesses the means to sanction them.

Cruz made the warning on Tuesday via his X account, responding to Sunday’s deadly attack on the Angwan Rukuba community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, which fell on Palm Sunday and claimed at least 12 lives.

“Nigerian government officials have created an environment in which Christians are routinely persecuted and slaughtered, by imposing sharia law and looking the other way at violence.

“Those officials should know that the U.S. knows who they are, and has the tools to hold them accountable,” the Texas senator wrote.

The Plateau State Police Command had confirmed that gunmen struck Angwan Rukuba at around 8:30 p.m. on March 29, killing 12 persons, 10 men and two women, with two additional corpses later recovered from the surrounding bush during a security sweep.

The attack also drew criticism from an American humanitarian, Alex Barbir, leader of the Building Zion missionary group, who in a widely circulated video on X directly challenged President Bola Tinubu over what he described as serial government inaction.

“They just murdered over 10 people. Innocent Christians on Palm Sunday. Tinubu, where are you as your people are slaughtered in the night?” Barbir said while speaking from Plateau State. Punch