Tinubu’s govt not doing enough about killings in Nigeria – US Congressman, Bill Huizenga

Tinubu’s govt not doing enough about killings in Nigeria – US Congressman, Bill Huizenga

November 20, 2025

US Congressman, Bill Huizenga, has said the President Bola Tinubu administration is not doing enough about the killings in Nigeria.

Huizenga made this claim while testifying before the US House Subcommittee on Africa reviewing the African nation’s redesignation as a country of particular concern (CPC).

The lawmaker said, “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,” Huizenga said.

“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 also slammed the Tinubu administration’s response, accusing Nigeria’s delegation of downplaying the crisis in Washington.

He also faulted the media and some members of Congress for denying or de-emphasising the scale of the killings.

“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-emphasising it,” he said.

Huizenga recalled a Christmas Eve 2023 attack that killed 200 people and said the incident showed that security conditions had not improvev

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