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The U.S. Congress is currently discussing Nigeria’s failing judiciary and the country’s declining respect for the rule of law.
They are using the case of Nnamdi Kanu as a major example — a development that is not a good look for Nigeria’s judicial system.
Here is what is being said right now in the ongoing U.S. Congressional session:
The speaker said, “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a clear example. In 2022, Nigeria’s Court of Appeal struck down the charges against Nnamdi Kanu and ordered his release. The UN Group on Arbitrary Detention has also called for his unconditional release. Yet he remains in solitary confinement, in deteriorating health, and recently had to represent himself in court.
Nigeria has signaled that the law is optional and targeting Christians is fair game.
Just hours ago this morning, despite the pleas and cries of the Nigerian people and many Nigerian lawmakers, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was convicted on all charges.
For fiscal year 2025, the U.S. requested nearly eight billion dollars for Sub-Saharan Africa. But when Americans see political prisoners, judicial defiance, and the slaughter of Christians, they understandably ask: why should their tax dollars support governments that refuse to protect their own people? Is our aid aiding genocide?
Nigeria is a nation of tremendous potential, but that potential is being choked out by violent persecution of its Christian population. No country can build a stable future where churches are burned, believers are killed, and communities live in fear…”
