The United States lawmakers have been urged to pressure the Nigerian government to abolish Sharia law in northern states where they has been adopted and disband the religious-enforcement Hisbah commissions amid warnings that these laws and groups are deepening anti-Christian persecution.
Speaking on Tuesday, December 2, at a joint congressional briefing convened by the House Appropriations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Dr. Ebenezer Obadare, Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, testified that the primary drivers of violence are Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and radicalised Fulani militants..Full content / Read original.