A United States-based non-profit group, Global Advocates for Terrorism Eradication has written a petition to the office of the United States Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinke, demanding that the government of the US should designate Nigerian Government and some of its officials sponsors of terrorism.

The GATE Principal Advocate, Robert Berry, said this in the 26-page petition sent to the US Secretary of State. An electronic copy of the petition was made available to our correspondent on Friday.

The group accused the Nigerian government of sponsoring terrorism by carrying out terrorist activities, including training, fundraising, financing, and recruitment of terrorists.

It stated that the government officials were using the shell of their office as a safe haven, transit and operational base for terrorists and terrorist activities.

The group claimed that some ministers in the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), governors, an ambassador, former Inspector General of Police, head of a security agency and some political office holders were sponsoring terrorism but said the government had failed to take any step against it.

-Allege Buhari, Uzodinma, Buratai, Malami, Adamu, Bichi, Elrufai, Pantami, Lai Mohammed, Others For Aiding, Abetting Terrorism In Nigeria 

-Gives Two-Month Notice To US Secretary Of State To Act, Threatens To Apply For WRIT Of Mandamus If No Action Upon Expiration 

 In what could be described as a move to salvage the Indigenous Nigerians from the formidable bondages of Terrorists, a United States Based Non-Profit Group, Global Advocates For Terrorism Eradication (GATE), has petitioned the office of the United States Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinke, demanding that the United States Government should designate some Nigerian Government Officials, including President Muhammad Buhari, as Sponsors of Terrorism.

The Group is particularly demanding that the Government of the United States should designate the Nigerian Government as a Sponsor of Terrorism, alleging that “from all available indices, what is happening in Nigeria is State-sponsored Terrorism”. 

GATE said its Core objectives are to stop the provision of material support, funding and prosecutorial protection of terrorists by state actors. 

In an electronic statement sent to our Correspondent by its Principal Advocate, Robert Berry, the 26-page Petition alleged that the Nigerian govt was sponsoring terrorism by carrying out terrorist activities including training, fundraising, financing, and recruitment of terrorists using the shell of their office as Nigerian Government operatives and Nigeria as a safe haven, transit and operational base for terrorists and terrorist activities. 

The organization said that “the Nigerian govt officials have deployed the instrumentality of power and are using the veil of sovereignty in knowingly consenting and with malicious intent allowing and promoting the use of Nigeria as a breeding ground and recruitment nursery for international terrorism activities contrary to foreign relations authorizations act fiscal years 1988 and 1989 (P.L.100 to 204:22 U.S.C 2656f), as amended.” 

The letter chronicles numerous terrorist activities that establishes the culpability of the Nigerian govt and her officials.  Some of those acts include providing funds to terrorists and terrorist organizations; providing material support including weapons and equipment to terrorists, actively and expressly encouraging and inciting terrorist activities. 

Other allegations against the Nigerian Government are prosecutorial protection to terrorists by directly engaging in acts of terrorism and extra judicial killings, using the Nigerian Military, Police and other security agencies.  

GATE, in the petition, accused President Muhamadu Buhari, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of kaduna State, former Chief of Army Staff and Current Nigerian Ambassador to Republic of Benin, Tukur Buratai and the Director General of State Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi of Aiding Terrorism in Nigeria. 

Others accused of Terrorism by GATE are former Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, Ministers of Communications, Justice and Information, Isa Pantami, Abubakar Malami and Lai Mohammed respectively, amongst others.

GATE accuses Buhari of executing a global Jihadist agenda that is comparable, if not more insidious, than the Taliban of Afghanistan, urging the US Government to kick start the statutory process and legal instruments of holding the Nigerian Government Officials accountable for their high crimes of sponsoring international terrorism. 

The Group gave a notice of two-month deadline to the United States Government, warning that “if at the expiration of the two months deadline, and the designation is not made, GATE will proceed to the Federal Court in United States to apply for a Writ of Mandamus to compel the United States Secretary of State to issue the designation in line with the provisions of Law”

GATE opined that US Government designating Nigerian officials as sponsors of terrorism will have far reaching legal implications, including potentially arrest and criminal prosecution in a Federal US court if they visit the country.

The group accused the Nigerian government of sponsoring terrorism by carrying out terrorist activities, including training, fundraising, financing, and recruitment of terrorists.

It stated that the government officials were using the shell of their office as a safe haven, transit and operational base for terrorists and terrorist activities.

Racoon:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/us-govt-asked-to-designate-buhari-regime-terrorism-sponsor/%3famp

US Non-Profit Group, GATE, Submits 26-Page Petition To US Govt On State-Sponsored Terrorism In Nigeria

https://independent.ng/us-non-profit-group-gate-submits-26-page-petition-to-us-govt-on-state-sponsored-terrorism-in-nigeria/

FarahAideed:
Good that someone is calling it what it is !!!! State sponsored terrorism

Racoon:

"Major General Muhammadu Buhari has faulted the federal government’s clampdown on Boko Haram Islamic insurgents...."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/buhari-faults-clampdown-on-boko-haram-members/amp/

"The recent proscription of Boko Haram and Ansaru violates the Constitution." - Lai Mohammed (June 10, 2013, The Nation).

Lai Mohammed: Kidnapping, Banditry Not Federal Offences In Nigeria
https://dailypost.ng/2021/05/04/breaking-kidnapping-banditry-not-federal-offences-in-nigeria-buhari-govt/?amp&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

And now "Terrorists Now Use Walkie-talkie, We Can't Track Them - FG"
https://gazettengr.com/terrorists-now-use-walkie-talkie-we-cant-track-them-space-agency/

Nigerian soldiers not trained to fight bandits, Boko Haram: Chief of Defence
https://gazettengr.com/nigerian-soldiers-not-trained-to-fight-bandits-boko-haram-chief-of-defence/

It Is Not Our Duty To Unravel Boko Haram Sponsors – Military
https://thenationonlineng.net/it-is-not-our-duty-to-unravel-boko-haram-sponsors-military/

Why I Won’t Reveal Sponsors Of Boko Haram, Terrorism— EFCC Boss, Bawa
http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/17/why-i-won%E2%80%99t-reveal-sponsors-boko-haram-terrorism%E2%80%94-anti-graft-agency-efcc-boss-bawa

Racoon:

"...Boko Harm are mere scavengers desperate for food, raiding shops and markets, and killing innocent persons in the process......” -President Buhari
https://www.thecable.ng/buhari-describes-boko-haram-fighters-as-scavengers-desperate-for-food

"...An attack on Boko Haram is an attack against the North" - Muhammadu Buhari.

"....Bandits are innocent citizens doing their business, they only kidnap for ransom....." -El Rufai.

"..If you want to live in peace in your land with bandits, show them love and give them your land to settle down...." -Shiekh Gumi.

“Bandits have no flag. Bandits are simple criminals. Bandits have never said they don’t believe in Nigeria, they are just pure criminals....." -Lai Mohammed.

These are views being expressed, shared and highly supported by most northerners under this evil government.

“Oh God, give victory to the Taliban and to al-Qaeda"
“...jihad is an obligation for every single believer, especially in Nigeria."-Pantami

Also commenting on the death of the notorious Al-Qaeda leader, Isa Pantami said,

“...May God have mercy on Ahmad Fadeel al-Khalayleh "

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa_Ali_Pantami