A senior United States lawmaker, Senator Ted Cruz, has disclosed that the US Government is tracking many unnamed Nigerian government officials whom he accused of sponsoring terrorism in the country.
In a message posted on his X handle recently, in response to the Palm Sunday Killings in Ungwan-Rukuba, Gari-Ya-Waye area in Jos, the US Congressman accused the Nigerian government officials of implementing policies that encourage the activities of terror groups in Nigeria.
Specifically, the US Congressman mentioned that the Sharia law being implemented in Nigeria particularly in northern Nigeria has encouraged the terror group to operate unchecked in Nigeria.
The post read: “Another slaughter of Christians in Nigeria by jihadists, this time on Palm Sunday. Nigerian government officials have created an environment in which Christians are routinely persecuted and slaughtered, by imposing shari’ah law and looking the other way at violence. Those officials should know that the US knows who they are, and has the tools to hold them accountable”.
Similarly, Senator Riley Moore, in his post, described the Palm Sunday killings in Jos as sickening and unacceptable. He said: “These radical Islamic terrorists opened fire on the Christians before hacking them to pieces with machetes. This tragedy follows a pattern of radical Islamic terrorists massacring Christians on Holy Days. In fact, terrorists have attacked Christians in Nigeria on every single holy day in recent memory, except for last Christmas when President Trump sent 12 tomahawk cruise missiles to stop them”.
“Abuja knows this pattern, and they must massively ramp-up security for the Easter. If they don’t take this threat seriously and mobilize to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ, blood of these martyrs will be on their hands, and there will be significant consequences for Nigeria’s relationship with the United States”, he further stated.
