Frank Wolf: “Your budget states that you were unable to achieve performance goals in fiscal year 2011 because Congress did not enact…”

Absolutely none. Absolutely positively categorically none. It's actually gotten worse.

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.

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.

The United States needs to take a leadership role to the rest of the world.