The United States Senator, Patrick Leahy, yesterday
came down heavily on the Nigerian army for their alleged
brutality in the handling of the Boko Haram crisis rocking
the country.
The US senator referred to some of them as rapists and
murderers. But the former director of media and publicity
of Goodluck Jonathan’s national campaign organisation,
Femi Fani-Kayode, who now prefers to be called Olufemi
Olu-Kayode, has reacted to the comments by taking a
swipe at the US and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Fani-Kayode said the US government refuses to sell arms
to the Nigerian army because they are assisting the Boko
Haram militants. He also accused the US government of
being slow in tagging Boko Haram as a terrorist group till
the group had caused soo much havoc in the land. Fani-
Kayode took to his social media handles to thrash both
the US government and the ruling party, the APC.
US Senator, Patrick Leahy
He said: “The U.S. government helped Boko Haram
immensely by refusing to classify them as a terrorist
organisation until 2014 and by refusing to sell us arms to
fight them. Worst still, they imposed an international arms
embargo on us so that we could not buy arms from anyone
else.
Why did the US not invoke the Leahy Act against Israel,
Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia,
Kenya, Yemen, Ukraine and Iraq for human rights violations?
Why is it only Nigeria that they have refused to sell arms to
and that they have imposed an international arms embargo
on even though we are fighting a civil war against a
relentless and evil enemy?
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the convener of the Leahy Act,
has called our Armed Forces “rapists and murderers”. He is
nothing but scum- a typically confused, ignorant, petty-
minded and racist yankee.
Why blame Senator Leahy? He was only rehearsing what he
heard from Liar Muhammed. When APC wanted power, they
threw caution into the winds. Now it has come to hurt
them.”
Femi Fani-Kayode,
Read Senator Leahy’s 23 July reaction below:
“It is well documented by the State Department and by
respected human rights organizations that Nigerian army
personnel have, for many years, engaged in a pattern and
practice of gross violations of human rights against the
Nigerian people and others, including summary executions of
prisoners, indiscriminate attacks against civilians, torture,
forced disappearances and rape. Rarely have the perpetrators
been prosecuted or punished.
“This abusive conduct not only violates the laws of war, it
creates fear and loathing among the Nigerian people whose
support is necessary to defeat a terrorist group like Boko
Haram.
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