SAMPLE SENATOR LETTER C
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The Honorable [Insert Senator’s Name]
Dear Senator [Insert Senator's Last Name ]
DESIGNATE NIGERIA A COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN (CPC)
My name is [YOUR NAME …………………… ] I am a U.S. citizen of Nigerian descent. I live at [ YOUR ADDRESS …… …………….. ] within your constituent. I ask that you raise your voice and stand with your colleagues against the atrocious destruction of human lives by the various insurgent groups in Nigeria by urging the President and the U.S. State Department to designate Nigeria as Country of Particular Concern (CPC).
Nigeria is the biggest killing ground of Christians today. Nigeria is becoming the world's 'biggest killing ground for Christian.1 New United Nations Development Program (UNDP) data on the war in Nigeria conflict showed about 350,000 were killed by the Islamist insurgencies as of the end of 2020. This number was 10 times higher than previous estimates since the conflict started 12 years ago. 2. The report stated that should the conflict continues to 2030, more than 1.1 million people may die.2
Many Statesmen have warned that if urgent steps are not taken to arrest the violence in Nigeria, it can affect the entire African continent and Europe," particularly if the flow of refugees out of Nigeria accelerates. We don't want to look back a decade from now and regret that we allowed another Rwanda. Nigerian Christian community faces peril.3.
In Benue state, on May 20, St. Michael’s Agasha parish in Makurdi suffered lethal attacks when Fulani murdered farmers in their fields and burned their homes. In these pages last August, I wrote of similar Fulani offensives in Christian villages on Kaduna’s border with Plateau, describing a nearby military unit that stood down until the attacks ended. These are only a few examples. 4.
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The Kukah Center documented the following: Father Stephen Ojapah and Father Oliver Okpara were abducted by suspected armed Fulani on May 25, from the rectory of St Patrick’s Church in Katsina. On May 11, Father Joseph Bako died in captivity after being kidnapped from Saint John’s Church in Kaduna on March 8. On March 27, Father Leo Raphael Ozigi of St. Mary’s Church was abducted after leaving Mass. On March 24, in Zaria, while traveling to the diocesan secretariat, Father Felix Zakari Fidson was abducted for 37 days. On February 6, Father Joseph Danjuma Shekari of St. Monica’s Church in Kaduna was kidnapped from his parish residence for four days. 4.
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On May 29, The Methodist Church reported that eight Fulani militants abducted its head, His Eminence Samuel Kanu-Uche, along with a chaplain and Bishop Dennis Mark of Owerri. The three were taken into the bush and tortured. They were released days later after the payment of a $240,000 ransom. “We will finish you people and take over this land,” the militants warned, according to Kanu, who added, “They claimed that Nigeria belonged to Fulani. Nigeria’s Christian Association implored the government to protect the bishop. 4.
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I ask that you work with your colleagues to implore U.S. President through the State Department to hold the Nigerian government accountable by deploring all foreign policy tools, including designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).
I look forward to hearing from you about these concerns.
Sincerely,
[ YOUR NAME ]
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1. Nigeria is becoming the world's 'biggest killing ground for Christian.1 https://cruxnow.com/church-in-africa/2020/08/nigeria-is-becoming-worlds-biggest-killing-ground-of-christians/.
3. The Christian Science Monitor: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2020/0316/Nigerian-Christian-community-faces-peril-White-House-is-told
4. Nigeria’s Religious-Cleansing Crisis Is Not Due to Climate Change-