U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has declared that the United States government is fully aware of the individuals orchestrating what he described as the ongoing genocide against Christians in Nigeria, vowing that they will be held accountable.
In a post on his official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Tuesday, the Texas lawmaker stated, “The United States knows who those people are, and I intend to hold them accountable.”
Lamenting the sustained wave of violence targeting Christian communities in Nigeria since 2009, Senator Cruz alleged that those responsible for the killings are the same people attacking him for exposing the atrocities.
He wrote, **“Since 2009, over 50,000 Christians in Nigeria have been massacred, and over 18,000 churches and 2,000 Christian schools have been destroyed.
“It is the result of decisions made by specific people, in specific places, at specific times—and it says a great deal about who is lashing out now that a light is being shone on these issues.”**
The post came just days after Senator Cruz introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate seeking to combat the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and ensure greater U.S. engagement in defending religious freedom abroad.
Cruz, who is currently serving his third term in the Senate, has been vocal in recent years about the deteriorating security and religious freedom situation in Nigeria.
In September, Cruz and four other Republican senators — Ted Budd, Pete Ricketts, Josh Hawley, and James Lankford — jointly signed a letter addressed to the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, urging the administration to redesignate Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act.
The senators argued that the rising wave of terrorism and systematic attacks on religious minorities, particularly Christians, requires renewed U.S. pressure on the Nigerian government to take decisive action to end the violence.
