“Don’t blame us for refusing to
fund rapists and murderers of
Nigerian Army” – US Senator

BY DAMILOLA J ·
JULY 24, 2015

Patrick Leahy, an American Senator who
sponsored the Leahy Law says that President
Muhammadu Buhari should not blame the
United States for not choosing to support the
Nigerian Army.

The Leahy amendment prohibits the US
Department of State and Department of
Defence from providing military assistance to
foreign military units that violate human rights
with impunity.

Owing to the fact that the Nigerian military has
been accused of alleged human rights crimes in
its war against Boko Haram, the United States
had refused to give the country the required
assistance.
President Buhari had said on Wednesday, July
22, at the United States Institute for Peace that
the law “aided and abetted” the campaign of
bloodletting of Boko Haram.
In a response posted on his website, Senator
Leahy said he could not be blamed for the
atrocities committed by the murderers and
rapists in the Nigerian military.
He said:


“It is well-documented by the State
Department and by respected human
rights organisations 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.

“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.

“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.”

http://ynaija.com/senator-leahy-leahy-amendment/

K

They may be right afterall, we have seen people rape children in the name of marriage in Nigeria. this place looks like a Banana republic!

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This statement is too derogatory to a soverign state...waiting for lia mohammed,femi falana nd buhari reactions to this statement!

merry02:
This statement is too derogatory to a soverign state...waiting for lia mohammed,femi falana nd buhari reactions to this statement!

A sovereign state indeed, please if i may ask, what made Nigeria sovereign? Is it the fuel you are selling that made you sovereign?


A sovereign state that depends on America, and other Western Country for virtually everything is not sovereign. Get that bro!