Friday, November 21, 2025 - US Congressman Bill Huizenga fought back tears as he accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of “sitting back” and failing to address widespread killings in Nigeria.
Testifying on Thursday, November 20, before the US House
Subcommittee on Africa, reviewing Nigeria’s redesignation as a country of
particular concern (CPC), Huizenga slammed Tinubu’s administration over its
failure to act decisively while violence spirals.
The congressman criticized President Tinubu’s
administration, accusing Nigeria’s delegation of downplaying the crisis in
Washington.
“It ought to be outrageous that it is Christians, moderate
Muslims, and anyone being terrorised by these radicalised Islamists in Nigeria,
and we’ve got the Tinubu government sitting back and not doing enough. I was
recently interviewed by Nigerian television, and that was really their
question. Is the Tinubu government doing enough? And I had to answer, ‘No, they
are not.’
“And I do not understand how a delegation can come here to
the United States and downplay and come up with all of these other excuses as
to why this is allowed to happen. It should be rejected, and should be called
out for what it is,” the lawmaker said.
“I went to school with kids from Nigeria. We’ve got
neighbours who’ve been missionaries there, who have family there, who have
friends there, who know this is going on. Yet, we’ve got not just the mass
media, we’ve got people within the Congress denying that this is happening, or
certainly de-emphasizing it,” he said.
Huizenga recalled a Christmas Eve 2023 attack that killed
200 people and said the incident showed that security conditions had not
improved.Questioning the pattern of religious attacks in the country, he asked,
“Do we see Christians killing Muslims the way radicalised Islamists kill
Christians in Muslim areas?”
The committee will also hear from senior US State Department
officials and Nigerian religious leaders.
The hearing came after US President Donald Trump reinstated
Nigeria on the CPC list on 31 October 2025.
Watch the video below..
US Congressman BILL HUIZENGA accuses President TINUBU of ‘’not doing enough’’ to stop Christian massacre in Nigeria as he fights back tears pic.twitter.com/UH4TBb4FoB
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