GENOCIDE AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA— Senator Ted Cruz Acted on Our Petitions to US Government While Church Leaders and the Press Collected Bribes
Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD October 5, 2025
The International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria (ICAC-GEN) wishes to express her unqualified gratitude to the indomitable Senator Ted Cruz of the United States of America for coming out boldly in the spirit of President Donald Trump to defend the cause of the oppressed Christians in Nigeria who have been under the sword of Islam for over 15 years.
We totally ally ourselves, our objectives and our mission to his bold statement on the on-going genocide against Nigerian Christians. We know that the evil will not continue unchecked for eternity and that the God of the Christians will one day raise the standard of battle for them. Here comes Senator Ted Cruz.
We also appreciate the untiring efforts of Jeff King, the indomitable world’s leading expert on religious freedom and President of International Christian Concern (ICC) in combating this evil of a religion of blood called Islam in Nigeria. We also thank the Hon. Andrew Scheer of the Canadian House of Commons for drawing the attention of his Government to the on-going genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
In January 18, 2024 the International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria sent a petition to the United States Government over the on-going genocide in Nigeria through the Secretary of State the Rt. Hon. Antony Blinken. The text of the petition is reproduced below.
On February 17, 2025 we again sent a reminder-petition to the present United States Government of President Donald Trump through the Secretary of State the Rt. Hon. Marco Rubio. The text is equally reproduced below. We want the members of the public to be aware of these facts before we formally respond to the ranting of the roguish Federal Islamic Republic of Nigeria over Senator Ted Cruz’s incontrovertible statement.
Antony J. Blinken, 18 January, 2024
United States Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20520
Dear Antony J. Blinken,
NON-INCLUSION OF NIGERIA AMONG THE “2023 COUNTRIES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN, SPECIAL WATCH LIST COUNTRIES, ENTITIES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN” DEFINES THE UNITED STATES AS AN ACCOMPLICE IN GENOCIDE
The International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria (ICAC-GEN):
Having considered its Mission, which states inter alia: To preserve and protect the secular status of the Federal Republic of Nigeria free from the heinous activities of fundamentalist Muslims, represented by armed bandits and Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram insurgents and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), which has resulted to repeated genocide against Nigerian Christians, kidnapping and forcible occupation of their ancestral homelands;
Mindful of the fact that Nigerian Christian Leaders are not only cowardly in orientation in the defense of their Christian Faith but ignobly more concerned with the accumulation of corrupted wealth than the lives of those they call their flocks;
Regrettably helpless of the fact that the Christian political class including members of the Judiciary has been so drowned in the sea of corruption and moral bankruptcy that both the lives of their Christian brethren and the future of the secularity of their nation do not count a dime to their moral sense of judgment:
Conscious of the Provisions of Article II of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 to which the Federal Republic of Nigeria is signatory;
Strongly counting on the extant validity of Articles VI and VII of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 1998;
Aligning with paragraphs (3) and (4) of the January 2000 Stockholm Declaration of the International Forum on the Holocaust popularly known as the “Stockholm Declaration”;
Affirming the United Nations Thirty Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement of 1998;
Strongly Relying on the Provisions of the United States International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 and Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2016;
Do hereby wish to state as follows:
1. That the Non-inclusion of Nigeria among the “2023 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern” by the United States of America is an undeniable evidence that the United States of America under President Joe Biden is not only selective in its definition of what constitutes genocide but an accessory to the on-going persecution, vicious kidnappings and associated payment of vile ransoms, capped with mass killing of defenseless Christian population of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by Government-protected Muslim Bandits, Armed Fulani herdsmen, Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram.
2. We wish to remind the United States Government under President Joe Biden that what is currently taking place in Nigeria against the Nigerian Christian population on one hand and the Christians of Middle Belt region on the other amounts to Genocide jointly defined by Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; and Articles 6 and 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, being perpetrated by Federal Government-Protected Muslim insurgents.
3. That we are awed that the United States of America which professes to be the “God’s own Country” with a strong and proud Christian foundation, an epicenter of freedom of religious worship and protector of global democracy could feign ignorance of the magnitude and religious dimension of the on-going targeted and repeated massacre of Christians in both the Middle Belt and Southern Regions of the country by bands of armed Muslims insurgents in multiple garbs of armed bandits and Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram insurgents and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), which since 2015 have so far surpassed the cases of the on-going Israel Hamas War, Ukrainian Bakmut and Rwandan Genocide.
4. That right from May 29, 2015 when the Islamic APC Government assumed power in Nigeria, the amount of innocent Christian bloodshed on the altar of Nigerian Muslim political conspiracy cannot be quantified. Such States as Southern Kaduna, Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Enugu and Southern Borno where indigenous Christians are predominant have adopted the frequent sad events of burying their kinsmen as part of their immutable ugly culture. We have witnessed our priests and Christian brethren attacked by Boko Haram, ISWAP, armed Fulani Herdsmen and Bandits callously slaughtered, with some beheaded and executed in ISIS-Style live video showmanship, while the fortunate ones got released after the payment of huge sums of money as ransom.
5. Although there have been repeated attempts by both the national and international press under the undue influence of the Muslim-dominated Federal Government of Nigeria, through their powerful lobby agents in the U.S. State Department and Congress to either under-report or cover-up the on-going heinous crimes against humanity in Nigeria, the truth are laid bare beyond every vile comprehension. To this end, we wish to convey our most unalloyed appreciation to the most respected Israeli United Nations Permanent Representative Erlan Gidan for bringing before the United Nations Security Council the on-going crimes against humanity being inflicted on Nigerian Christians.
6. We are not unaware that the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is under the hypnotic influence of his Muslim Nigerian-born Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed who is considered within UN unofficial circles as his unofficial second wife, but we are surprised that the U.S. Department of State could also cave in to the same unholy act of covering up heinous crimes against Nigerian Christians. The attitude of Antonio Guterres to the October 7, 2023 Hamas abduction and killing of innocent Jews best explains this position. In 2022, Antonio Guterres visited Nigeria, made no official statement on the killing of Christians by Muslims, but instead raced to Amina Mohammed’s home-State of Borno where his major concern was vitiation to the so-called over 50, 000 surrendered and repented members of Boko Haram rather than showing concern over those slaughtered by the same Boko Haram.
7. It is important for the Honorable Secretary of State to take note that the recent mass killing of Christians in Plateau State was not an isolated instance but part of a change of recurrent decimal that has seen many Christians slaughtered on the altar of Nigerian Province of Global Jihad stealthily directed from the seat of Sokoto Caliphate and clandestinely protected by the Muslim-dominated Federal Republic of Nigeria.
8. According to Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect August 31, 2023 Report on POPULATIONS AT RISK:
“Between May and June approximately 200 people were killed in clashes between the predominantly Christian Berom farming communities and the predominantly Fulani Muslim herding communities in the Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Mangu areas of Plateau State. On 15 May armed men, allegedly Fulani herdsmen, attacked at least 20 villages in Mangu, killing at least 100 people, including many women and children. On 22 June at least 16 people were killed in two separate attacks in Riyom and Mangu areas.” Yet, Nigeria was not included among U.S. “2023 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern.
9. Let us take the case of Benue State as another arm of this chain of unending Muslim slaughter of Christians.
a. On April 8, 2023, 74 people were counted as slaughtered in two separate attacks of which 28 of the victims were recovered from an Internally Displaced Persons Camp (IDP) in Mgban Local Government Area on October 18, 2023; while the rest were victims of attack during the funeral of Mr. Bako Eje, the Chairman of Otukpo Local Government Council at Umogidi Village in Otukpo Local Government Area, Benue State.
b. On July 7, 2023, more than 27 persons were slaughtered by the same Muslim Bandits at Adogo Ugbaam, Akpuuna and Diom communities in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State.
c. On October 14, 2023, three men— Tertsea Terkimbi Adagundu, Tertsea Mkposu and Mimidoo Umburga were slaughtered by the same Muslim insurgents at Imatom village Square near Chembe, Ukemberagya, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State.
d. On October 18, 2023 these same Muslim insurgents reportedly murdered no fewer than nine persons in a twin attack on Ayilamo and Mbachohon communities in Logo and Gwer West Local Government Areas of Benue State respectively.
e. Surprisingly none of the expert advisors of the Honorable Secretary State took note of the above weird blood-cuddling episodes to consider a place for Nigeria on the list of “2023 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern.
10. We wish to remind the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the last time the U.S. Government included Nigeria among the “Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern” was under President Donald Trump, a Republican; and we are by the same token telling the U.S. voters of Special Christian concern to take note of this, since it is clear that the lives of Nigerian Christians do not matter to President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
11. On March 28, 2022, Islamic terrorists attacked an Abuja-Kaduna bound passenger train, killing 14 passengers, wounding undisclosed number and abducted 63. The final batch of the hostages was released on October 5, 2022. For the six months those innocent Nigerians were held captive within the center of their country, their captors collected whooping ransoms exceeding 6 billion naira from the victims’ families under the protection of a fraudulent democratic President. Yet, Nigeria was not included among U.S. “2022 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern.”
12. On Tuesday July 5, 2022, at about 9 pm, these terrorists who had by then identified themselves as ISWAP attacked Kuje Prisons Abuja, where more than sixty of their members were being held. In the attack that lasted for three hours without any response from the Nigerian Armed Forces, more than 800 of the 994 inmates were released. Indeed the operation was carried out under a situation of sublime calmness and confidence that the terrorist had enough time to give every inmate willing to escape the sum of two thousand naira for transportation. Yet, Nigeria was not included among U.S. “2022 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern.”
13. On Sunday June 5, 2022, Islamic terrorists marched all the way from the north and invaded St Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State in Southern Nigeria killing over 50 worshippers in broad day light, and returned to their base unscathed. Yet, Nigeria was not included among U.S. “2022 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern.”
14. On May 12, 2022, Miss Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was publicly stoned to death Afghanistan-style in a most gruesome manner under the watch of the Sultan of Sokoto by irate Muslim mobs for a trumped-up accusation of blasphemy against Islam. Yet, Nigeria was not included among U.S. “2022 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern.
15. On May 29, 2022, the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Samuel Kanu, was kidnapped alongside Bishop Dennis Mark, the Methodist Bishop of Owerri and the Prelate’s Chaplain along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State, a stone throw to his home town Ihube. The Church paid a ransom of 100 million naira to his Muslim kidnappers for their freedom. Yet, Nigeria was not included among U.S. “2022 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern.
16. On June 12, 2022, Muslim armed bandits abducted the Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Jebba, Kwara State, Rt. Rev. Oluwaseun Aderogba, with his wife and driver on Oyo-Ogbomoso expressway. The Church paid undisclosed huge amount of money to get them released by their kidnappers. Yet, Nigeria was not included among U.S. “2022 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern. Yet, Nigeria was not included among U.S.
17. According to the National President of Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU) Hon. Jonathan Asake, since the last six years, more than 148 communities have been destroyed by these Government-sponsored Islamic insurgents with over 200, 000 indigenes displaced to become refugees in their homeland. The list of some of the victims can be accessed at our official website https://icac-gen.org/index.php/2024/01/17/report-and-list-…rea-since-2017-2/
18. The Honorable Secretary of State is not unaware of the politically immoral foundation of the present Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a pariah status that clearly renders him morally incapable of addressing the current precipitous state of the Nigerian nation; hence we come to the conclusion that the non-inclusion of Nigeria in the list of “2023 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern” as an official U.S. approval of Genocide against Christians in Nigeria by jihadist Islamists.
Respectfully Yours,
Dr. Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD Dr. Chukwuka J. Odunukwe, MD, FACS
President Vice President (America & the Diaspora)
The Rt. Hon. Marco Rubio, 17 February, 2025
United States Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20520g
Dear Rt. Hon. Marco Rubio,
RE-PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S POLICIES OF UNDERATING NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN POPULATION AND DELIBERATE EXCLUSION FROM COUNTRIES OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AGAINST CHRISTIANS—Our Humble Request for your Special Intervention
In accordance with the mission, aims and objectives of International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria, a United States registered non-profit 501(c) advocacy group, we wish to bring to your urgent attention our earlier protest to President Joe Biden administration on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria by Muslim leaders and their jihad agents.
The protest letter dated January 18, 2024 was in response to the decision of the United States of America to exclude Nigeria from the global list of countries where Christians are grossly persecuted. Titled, “Non-Inclusion of Nigeria among the “2023 Countries of Particular Concern, Special Watch List Countries, Entities of Particular Concern” and, addressed to the immediate-past Secretary of State Rt. Hon. Antony Blinken, it accused the United States of America under President Joe Biden administration as an accomplice in Genocide against Nigerian Christians. It is attached herewith as appendix one.
However, before proceeding further, we cannot stop expressing our unqualified gratitude to President Donald Trump for the great singular concern he has shown towards the plight of oppressed Christians in Nigeria and globally. A man of his words, President Trump has shown that he has both the moral capacity and undaunted political will to put the United States of America back on the track of her greatness as God’s Own Country. Indeed much of President Trump’s Executive Orders appear to invoke 2 Chronicles Chapter 7, verse 14:
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
It should be recalled that President Donald Trump had in 2018 in his Oval Office confronted the then visiting Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on this matter of persecution of Nigerian Christians in the following words:
“Also, we’ve had very serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed in Nigeria. We‘re going to be working on that problem very, very hard, because we can’t allow that to happen.”
President Trump was also amazing for hosting in his Oval Office on July 6, 2017 Miss Joy Bukhara and Miss Lydia Pogu in the company of his enviable daughter Ivanka. Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu were among the fifty Christian students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State Nigeria, who were fortunate to escape from Boko Haram captivity out of the more than two hundred Christian students kidnapped.
Unfortunately this unsurpassed visionary concern of President Trump to the plight of Nigerian Christians could not be fulfilled due to the evil machinations of the American Philistines and Amalekites. But today we are delighted by his election and have cause to celebrate the Goodness of Our God Almighty through the Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ that President Donald Trump has risen again. The Book of Acts of the Apostles in Chapter 16 verses 25 and 26 tells us that:
“And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.”
Like Paul and Silas praying and singing praises under the bondage of oppressive Roman Empire, the Christians in Nigeria continued to pray unceasingly with praises and worship to Almighty God for the victory of President Donald Trump; right from the point he declared his interest to re-contest his stolen mandate, through all the persecutions that confronted him in the manner of Saints departed, to the Election Day. And like the Walls of Biblical Jericho falling before the marching Israelites, we saw the doors of oppression against Christians in Nigeria and all over the world broken open with the consequent election of President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.
We wish to inform the Rt. Hon. Secretary of State that the same old order of oppression of Nigerian Christians by the roguish Nigerian Muslim leadership still exists with unimaginable impunity. Appendix one which was our Protest letter to your predecessor Rt. Hon Antony Blinken will reveal more on this issue of persecution and slaughtering of Christians like animals by Muslim bandits, herdsmen and insurgents under the protection of the Federal Government.
Similarly Appendix two presents the list of the highpoint of discrimination against Christians by the current regime of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in which the Christians were allotted only 7 positions and Muslims 17 positions from President Bola Tinubu a Muslim and Vice President Kashim Shettima a Muslim to 22 Heads Of Nigeria’s Security Agencies. Furthermore, Appendix Three which is the list of his Ministers presents another stark evidence of gross discrimination against Christians, with only 15 Christians out of a total of 48 Ministers. This same pattern is observed in other Federal Government agencies.
The Rt. Hon Secretary of State Sir, we wish to state that Nigeria is a Christian majority nation supported both statistically and demographically in practical political terms, but which has been ridiculously manipulated over time in favor of Muslims through the devious pro-Islamic policies of the Islamic World and the backing of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
We are therefore by the same token protesting against the United States of America State Department 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom with reference to Nigeria in which the percentage of Christian population was put at 48.1% and that of Muslims at 50%, which was based on the outdated 2015 Pew Research Center Report. We wish to emphasize that the stated population ratio between Christians and Muslims has neither empirical nor estimated basis. The reasons are obvious.
First, apart from the 1951/53 National Census conducted by British Colonial administration, Nigeria as an independent nation has never conducted a credible national census up till this moment. The first National population census conducted by Nigeria as an independent nation was the 1962 Census which was later cancelled because of incidents of fraud. The 1963 Census which followed shortly was again embroiled in the same allegation of fraud leading to its rejection by Eastern and Midwestern Regions. It was however upheld by the Supreme Court.
The 1973 Census which was the first to be conducted by a military government showed that Christians were more in population in Nigeria than Muslims. It was for that reason that the Northern Muslim apex organization Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) protested against the census result and consequently compelled the Head of State General Yakubu Gowon to cancel the census result.
It was in order to perpetually cover up this fact of Christian majority that the 1991 Census conducted by the Federal Military Government of General Ibrahim Babangida excluded religious and ethnic identities, including State of origin from the enumeration forms. This exclusion was further carried forward in the 2006 National Census conducted under President Olusegun Obasanjo.
There is therefore no official statistics of the population ratio between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. Moreover, Nigeria is a nation where there are no official records of birth and death. So the said 2015 Pew Research Center report on the population ratio between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria is not founded on verifiable evidence.
On the other hand, the demographic picture of the Nigerian nation evidently tilts in favor of Christian majority against Muslims. Concerning this demographic picture, even the same United States State Department 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom states concerning Nigeria:
Islam is the dominant religion in the North West and North East Regions, although significant Christian populations reside there as well. Christians and Muslims reside in approximately equal numbers in the North Central Region. Christianity is the dominant religion in the South West, including Lagos, which is also home to significant Muslim populations. In the South East Region, Christian groups, including Catholics, Anglicans, and Methodists, constitute the majority. In the South South, Christians form a substantial majority.
To break down the above demographic scenario to basic understanding we will use the religious affiliations of elected State Governors and their Deputies as the point of our comparative reference. In the present political dispensation, Christians hold the positions of elected State Governors in twenty States out of the thirty-six States of the Federation, living Muslims with sixteen States. Similarly, Christians occupy twenty positions of Deputy Governors out of the thirty-six States of the Federation, with Muslims again holding sixteen slots.
Baring the presence of other minority religions, when we therefore algebraically calculate the above ratio, we arrive at Christians constituting 55.6 percent of Nigeria’s approximate population, while Muslims constitute 44.4 percent. This is however without prejudice to the fact that Christians constitute between twenty and sixty percent of the population of such States as Kaduna, Niger, Kebbi, Bauchi, Yobe and Borno where Muslims continue to fraudulently produce both the Governors and Deputy Governors.
For example, Kaduna State is approximately made up of sixty percent of Christian population. Even such States as Adamawa, Gombe, Nasarawa and Kogi are made up of Christian majority population but Muslim leaders continue to manipulate themselves into the Governorship positions through election rigging and partly because of the political naivety of their Christian population.
Given the foregoing evidence which established the incontrovertible fact that Christians make up the majority population of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we humbly request a review of the official State Department classification of the Christian-Muslim population ratios as contained in the State Department 2023 Report on International Religious Freedom and based on the outdated 2015 Pew Research Center Report. Against the 48.1% Christian population ratio and 50% Muslims population ratio presented by the above 2023 State Department Report therefore, we request that the correct version should be in the following order: Christians 55.6%; Muslims 44.4%.
The Rt. Hon Secretary of State Sir, the outlandish height of Muslim impunity in rigging elections in Nigeria against Christians is not only limited to positioning their cronies in strategic judicial and executive positions that specially deal with the rigging of elections, but included the brazen recruitment of grossly underage children between five and fifteen years to vote as adults in Presidential elections, as shown by appendix four which represents the case of Kano State.
This brazen impunity is further revealed by the jihadist tirades of the current Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Kashim Shettima in which he boasted that Islam must conquer Nigeria and that they must test the objective with the imposition of a Muslim President and a Muslim Vice President on Nigerian Christians. This is contained in the attached Video clip of his speech as appendix five.
We are therefore pleading with the Rt. Hon Secretary of State and our divine-inspired President Donald Trump to take a strong stance against the persecution of Nigerian Christians by the current administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Fulani Muslim jihadist allies. Indeed it will not be out place if we request a Special Envoy for the Nigerian case because of obvious implication as the emerging hub of global terrorism in Africa.
We make this special request bearing in mind that a non-Christian President of Nigeria will never work in accord with the international policy objectives of the United States of America. As the most populous African country, a pro-America Nigeria can only be properly and objectively defined by a Christian President.
Respectfully Yours,
Dr. Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe is the Odogwu (Traditional Generalissimo) of Ibusa, Delta State & President, International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria (ICAC-GEN). He was formerly Director, Centre for Igbo Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He lives in exile in Manila, Republic of the Philippines.
Email: Nwaezeigwe.Genocideafrica@gmail.com
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