Frank Wolf: “Thankfully, we have the author of that law, the International Religious Freedom Act, Frank Wolf, who back in 1998…”

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

Let me be clear. Nigeria clearly meets the CPC standard under USCIRF, not only based on evidence that public reported but what should be reflected in the State Department's own reporting.

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.

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