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.
“I strongly agree with President Buhari about the need to defeat Boko Haram,
and I have supported tens of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Nigeria for that
purpose. But rather than suggest that the United States is at fault for not
funding murderers and rapists in the Nigerian military, he should face up to
his own responsibility to effectively counter Boko Haram. He should direct his
attention to the Nigerian military, and the Nigerian courts, and clean up the
units implicated in such atrocities.”
“President Buhari ignores the undisputed fact that most Nigerian army units
have been approved, under the Leahy Law, for U.S. training and equipment.
Only those particular units against which there is credible evidence of the
most heinous crimes are ineligible for U.S. aid. And even those units can again
become eligible if the Nigerian Government takes effective steps to bring the
responsible individuals to justice.”
Meanwhile, Fani-Kayode has commended President Buhari’s stand on same-
sex marriage. Fani-Kayode said: “‘Sodomy is against our laws and abhorrent
to our culture’- President Muhammadu Buhari to the Americans. It took
courage to say this to them. Thanks be to God.”

Hmmm

Aint they all the same?

FFK my Mentor! Fearless as always



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where there is smoke,there is fire.

Pot calling kettle black,,,,,,,,,, mtcheeeeeeew