After a four-day official visit in the United States of America, President Muhammadu Buhari will be returning to Nigeria today with no pledge of concrete military assistance against Boko Haram terrorists from his hosts. The US government told the Nigerian leader that its arms are tied by an American law, the Leahy Act, which prevents it from selling arms to countries with human rights abuse records. President Buhari, who is returning home displeased, told the US government that the refusal by America to arm Nigerian troops because of “so-called human rights violations” and “unproven allegations,” would only help Boko Haram. A global human rights watch group, Amnesty International, had recently accused the Nigerian military under former President Goodluck Jonathan of gross human rights abuses in the prosecution of the war on terrorists. The Nigerian military forces had denied the allegation which President Buhari pledged to investigate. Buhari “departs with little practical military assistance in his battle against the Islamist militants who have turned the northeast of his country into a bloody war zone,” the Associated Press (AP) reported on Wednesday. The US government has vowed to help Nigeria defeat the insurgency but it is prohibited under law from sending weapons to countries that fail to tackle human rights abuses. “Regretably, the blanket application of the Leahy Law by the United States on the grounds of unproven allegations of human rights violations levelled against our forces has denied us access to appropriate strategic weapons to prosecute the war,” Buhari said. Addressing an audience of policy- makers, activists and academics in Washington, Buhari complained that Nigerian forces had been left “largely impotent” in the face of Boko Haram’s campaign of kidnapping and bombings. “They do not possess the appropriate weapons and technology which we could have had if the so-called human rights violations had not been an obstacle,” he said. “Unwittingly, and I dare say unintentionally, the application of the Leahy Law Amendment by the United States government has aided and abetted the Boko Haram terrorists.” He appealed to both the White House and the US Congress to find a way around the law — introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy in 1997 — and to supply Nigerian troops with high- tech weapons under a deal “with minimal strings.” Since 2009, Boko Haram has been trying to establish an Islamist breakaway state in a conflict that has seen 15,000 people killed and 1.5 million displaced. The group’s brutality and in particular the mass kidnapping and enslavement of schoolgirls has shocked world opinion. In June, rights watchdog Amnesty International said there was sufficient evidence to launch an investigation into senior Nigerian officers for war crimes. In a 133-page report, the group blamed the army for the extrajudicial execution of 1,200 people and the torture or arbitrary detention of thousands more. Buhari insists that the charges are not proven, but he has replaced his senior military commanders and has promised to investigate the allegations.
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crazy fellaz...

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To hell with their weapons.... We will survive!!!

PMB can please look elsewhere for arms if US isn't willing to assist because of their selfish interest. Abi shey na only US get arms ni?

What is even wrong with our leaders? How do you expect the chief of terror to help you with weapons to suppress terrorism?
In as much as i support the Buhari's administration, i can not but say it is folly on its part to go seek for military assisstance from a Nation whose conduct so far, has only increased the belief by many that it is it that is behind Nigeria's current terror predicament!

And come to think of it, are there no other nations in the world that are selling weapons? What happened to Russia, China, etc, etc?
Or is there a curse that our leaders must always go back to what the Truckpusher called "their slave masters?"

Na wow o!

Following

Nigeria should go to Ukraine for weapons

FORGET ABOUT U.S. GO TO RUSSIA FOR ARMS PURCHASE.

Appleyard:
What is even wrong with our leaders? How do you expect the chief of terror to help you with weapons to suppress terrorism?
In as much as i support the Buhari's administration, i can not but say it is folly on its part to go seek for military assisstance from a Nation whose conduct so far, has only increased the belief by many that it is it that is behind Nigeria's current terror predicament!

And come to think of it, are there no other nations in the world that are selling weapons? What happened to Russia, China, etc, etc?
Or is there a curse that our leaders must always go back to what the Truckpusher called "their slave masters?"

Na wow o!

It is a shame that in this 21st century African leaders are still running to the same people that bastardized their continent for ages to seek for help in their own internal problems.
Which race did the white man run to become who they are? Can't we embark on capacity building given the rising number of population and available resources ?
Why is it difficult for us to look inwardly and make something out of ourselves instead of turning ourselves into a race of beggars?
Why has the Nigerian leadership not been able to harness our natural resources, human resources and the teeming population to build whatever we want and strengthen to maintain while pushing boundaries ?
We have all it takes to become great without begging any nation for any kind of help.

If this story is true then let the US go to hell with their weapons and let us look towards other countries for arms.Sodomy and sexual immorality can not stand and will never stand in our country!!

Truckpusher:
It is a shame that in this 21st century African leaders are still running to the same people that bastardized their continent for ages to seek for help in their own internal problems.
Which race did the white man run to become who they are? Can't we embark on capacity building given the rising number of population and available resources ?
Why is it difficult for us to look inwardly and make something out of ourselves instead of turning ourselves into a race of beggars?
Why has the Nigerian leadership not been able to harness our natural resources, human resources and the teeming population to build whatever we want and strengthen to maintain while pushing boundaries ?
We have all it takes to become great without begging any nation for any kind of help.

Of course! That is the multi million dollar question i keep asking my self. The black man continue to make himself so inferior before the white man in so much that at times makes me wonder if it wasn't the same intelligence of the Creator that is behind both creativity?
I am so disappointed that Nigeria that is suppose to lead the way out of such self-impose enslavement that the black race finds itself, is the one diving head-on into the same captivity over and over again, boasting of the most clueless, dull and myopic daff-gang of leaders.

Very pathetic!

Buhari oya Russia straight. The US should go and die.

Appleyard:



Of course! That is the multi million dollar question i keep asking my self. The black man continue to make himself so inferior before the white man in so much that at times makes me wonder if it wasn't the same intelligence of the Creator that is behind both creativity?
I am so disappointed that Nigeria that is suppose to lead the way out of such self-impose enslavement that the black race finds itself, is the one diving head-on into the same captivity over and over again, boasting of the most clueless, dull and myopic daff-gang of leaders.

Very pathetic!

What do you expect from some bunch of corrupt elites that steals from their own people to invest the same money in the land of the same people that seems to hold all the aces ?
Until we as a people especially people in leadership positions shun materialism and build a country that our own people can be proud of, we will continuously remain at the mercy of these imperialists.
The hypocrisy of the West should be a made a compulsory course of study in schools for all kids at the age of two.

We will liberate the black race one day with our blood , sweat and intellectual capacity even as we've been surrounded with too many people that bears the same color yet running with that ancient disease called mental slavery. But this generation must stop it at all cost.

If Buhari goes to Russia, then Washington might use Syrian or Libyan Formula on Nigeria. God forbid!!

I think Buhari is idiotic along with his cabinet

Why don't they get the police, and armed forces to stop brutalizing Nigerians, collecting bribes and generally treating us with lack of respect and dignity?

There should be body cams and other methods of surveiling the police

But APC are too stoopid to know what to do