US lawmakers set to grill Tinubu govt over Christian genocide in Middle Belt

The session has been scheduled for November 12, 2026. It shall be held on the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC, and Nigerians the world over will be capable of comply with it dwell on YouTube.

Rep. Chris Smith will preside over the session. Smith chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa.

Based on the announcement, the members of Congress will evaluation what Abuja has achieved up to now twelve months in defending Christians, stabilising the Middle Belt, and bringing to e book these finishing up faith-based assaults, together with Boko Haram and Fulani terrorists.

In the primary group are Frank Garcia, who serves as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and Riley Barnes, who serves as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour.

The second group will function Nina Shea from the Hudson Institute, Ryan Brown, the Chief Executive Officer of Open Doors US, and Oge Onubogu from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

The lawmakers are additionally anticipated to debate measures Washington can undertake to compel the Nigerian authorities to cease assaults on Christians and average Muslim communities.

The session is coming about one yr after President Donald Trump returned Nigeria to the record of Countries of Particular Concern, CPC.

Trump had earlier positioned Nigeria on the CPC record in 2020, throughout his first tenure. After he left workplace, former President Joe Biden took the nation off the record.

But on October 31, 2025, Trump restored Nigeria to the record. He argued that Christianity was underneath existential risk in Nigeria and blamed radical Islamist teams for the killing of hundreds of Christians.

Trump additional threatened to chop off all American help to Nigeria. He additionally warned that navy motion was doable if the Tinubu administration failed to finish the killings.

“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now-disgraced country, guns-a-blazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump had stated.

Another US lawmaker, Congressman Riley Moore, has additionally been mounting stress for more durable measures.

In a publish to mark one yr because the CPC redesignation, Moore acknowledged that Christians in Nigeria are nonetheless going via unspeakable violence.