No love lost as dissappointed by the refusal of the United States
to help Nigeria procure military weapons to combat Boko Haram, the
federal government has now openly expressed its dissatisfaction with the
American government decision, arguing that the Americans were letting
Nigeria down at her hour of need, Empowered Newswire reports.
While receiving a delegation of the U.S. Council
on Foreign Relations yesterday, the Nigerian Ambassador to the United
States, Professor Ade Adefuye said both the Nigerian people and the
government feel abandoned by America.
“I am sad to inform you that the Nigerian
leadership: military and political, and even the general populace, are
not satisfied with the scope, nature and content of the United States’
support for us in our struggle against terrorists.”
“We find it difficult to understand how and why
in spite of the U.S. presence in Nigeria with their sophisticated
military technology, Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more
deadly”.
“The U.S. Government has up till today refused to
grant Nigeria’s request to purchase lethal equipment that would have
brought down the terrorists within a short time on the basis of the
allegations that Nigeria’s defence forces have been violating human
rights of Boko Haram suspects when captured or arrested.”
Indeed the US government had equally explained
that it would not be selling military weapons to Nigeria due to human
rights allegations against the Nigerian military.
But Mr. Adefuye, in his meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations, dismissed such allegations.
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