Frank Wolf: “As you begin to weaken--and when I was Chairman of this Committee, we protected legal services and I went against my…”

Our conclusion from that visit and many others, the ongoing research continues to be that the government of Nigeria is perpetrating and tolerating a systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief.

We are not affording them the same protections when they're clearly, clearly an attacked religious minority.

Despite our analysis and recommendation, the State Department has only recognized the severity of the religious freedom violation in Nigeria twice.

I do not know how you feel about that. But I'm not really thrilled about it.