United States Senator representing Vermont, Patrick Leahy has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to face up to his responsibility to effectively counter Boko Haram and halt human right violation in the military.
Leahy, in a statement defending a human rights law he sponsored that blocks American aid to foreign military units with human rights violations, said that Nigeria’s “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.”
The Leahy Law, as it is known, prevents the US State Department and Department of Defence from providing military training and equipment to Nigeria because of its military’s well-documented gross violations of human rights.
The statement does not disagree with Buhari’s claim that Nigeria needs and should obtain military help against Boko Haram, but “only those particular units against which there is credible evidence of the most heinous crimes are ineligible for U.S. aid.”
Agency report
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