So if you're a local official and you're enforcing blasphemy laws and Sharia laws and you're persecuting Christians or you're turning the other way and turning, turning a blind eye to Christians being murdered in mass numbers, The result of my legislation would be each of those individual government officials would face sanctions. And I gotta say, the Nigerian government has been pushing back ferociously. For example, the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Oluwole oke, said the Cruz bill is, quote, a deliberate attempt to damage the Nigerian image. (04:58–05:05)
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Asserts that the legislation would impose sanctions on Nigerian government officials involved in persecution.
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