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How US Is Assisting Boko Haram – FG by Emenahagos02(m): 7:38am On Jul 23, 2015 |
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday gave insight into how the blanket application of the United States Leahy Law on the grounds of unproven allegations of human rights violations levelled against Nigerian forces was aiding and abetting Boko Haram. He has therefore appealed to both the executive arm and the US Congress to examine how Washington can provide the country with far more substantial counter-terrorism assistance with minimal strings. According to him, the Nigerian Armed Forces have remained largely impotent in the fight against terrorism because they do not possess the appropriate weapons and technology to match Boko Haram. The US Leahy Law, is a U.S. human rights law that prohibits the Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity. It is named after its principal sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. To implement this law, U.S. embassies and the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour and the appropriate regional bureau of the Department of State vet potential recipients of security assistance. If a unit is found to have been credibly implicated in a serious abuse of human rights, assistance is denied until the host nation government takes effective steps to bring the responsible persons within the unit to justice. While the U.S. Government does not publicly report on foreign armed force units it has cut off from receiving assistance, press reports have indicated that security force units in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan have been denied assistance due to the Leahy Law. President Buhari stated this in his remarks at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), at an event jointly organize with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Atlantic Council, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the International Republican Institute (IRI), and the International Foundation of Electoral Systems (IFES), to provide him a platform to explains his plans for Nigeria. http://sunnewsonline.com/new/how-us-is-assisting-boko-haram-fg/ Cc:lalasticlala cc:ishilove
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Re: How US Is Assisting Boko Haram – FG by babyfaceafrica: 7:39am On Jul 23, 2015 |
Buhari is working!!m..Nigeria will know peaace again...only tanaoids and wailing wailers won't agree |
Re: How US Is Assisting Boko Haram – FG by Misternas89(m): 7:40am On Jul 23, 2015 |
Alright |
Re: How US Is Assisting Boko Haram – FG by sentaljohn(m): 7:43am On Jul 23, 2015 |
na devil go punish all of em |
Re: How US Is Assisting Boko Haram – FG by managermahmud: 7:43am On Jul 23, 2015 |
Baba, may God bless your efforts |
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