Following a four-day authority visit in the United States of America, President Muhammadu Buhari will be coming back to Nigeria today with no promise of solid military help against Boko Haram terrorists from his hosts.
The US government told the Nigerian pioneer that its arms are tied by
an American law, the Leahy Act, which keeps it from offering arms to nations with human rights misuse records.
President Buhari, who is returning home disappointed, told the US government that the refusal by America to arm Nigerian troops due to "supposed human rights infringement" and "doubtful affirmations," would just help Boko Haram.
A worldwide human rights watch gathering, Amnesty International, had as of late charged the Nigerian military under previous President Goodluck Jonathan of gross human rights manhandle in the indictment of the war on terrorists.
The Nigerian military strengths had denied the assertion which President Buhari vowed to examine.
Buhari "leaves with minimal viable military help with his fight against the Islamist aggressors who have transformed the upper east of his nation into a blood zone," the Associated Press (AP) gave an account of Wednesday.
The US government has promised to help Nigeria rout the insurgency yet it is disallowed under law from sending weapons to nations that neglect to handle human rights manhandle.
"Regretably, i dare say the Leahy Law by the United States on the grounds of problematic affirmations of human rights infringement leveled against our strengths has denied us access to suitable key weapons to indict the war," Buhari said.
Tending to a crowd of people of strategy creators, activists and scholastics in Washington, Buhari whined that Nigerian powers had been left "to a great extent inept" even with Boko Haram's crusade of grabbing and bombings.
"They don't have the fitting weapons and innovation which we could have had if the alleged human rights infringement had not been an obstruction," he said.
"Unwittingly, and I set out say inadvertently, the utilization of the Leahy Law Amendment by the United States government has supported and abetted the Boko Haram terrorists."
He engaged both the White House and the US Congress to discover a way around the law — presented by Senator Patrick Leahy in 1997 — and to supply Nigerian troops with cutting edge weapons under an arrangement "with negligible strings."
Since 2009, Boko Haram has been attempting to set up an Islamist breakaway state in a contention that has seen 15,000 individuals murdered and 1.5 million dislodged.
The bunch's ruthlessness and specifically the mass hijacking and subjugation of schoolgirls has stunned world supposition.
In June, Human rights guard dog Amnesty International said there was adequate confirmation to dispatch an examination concerning senior Nigerian officers for atrocities.
In a 133-page report, the gathering rebuked the armed force for the extrajudicial execution of 1,200 individuals and the torment or discretionary confinement of thousands more.
Buhari demands that the charges are not demonstrated, but rather he has supplanted his senior military officers and has guaranteed to research the allegations.
The US government told the Nigerian pioneer that its arms are tied by
an American law, the Leahy Act, which keeps it from offering arms to nations with human rights misuse records.
President Buhari, who is returning home disappointed, told the US government that the refusal by America to arm Nigerian troops due to "supposed human rights infringement" and "doubtful affirmations," would just help Boko Haram.
A worldwide human rights watch gathering, Amnesty International, had as of late charged the Nigerian military under previous President Goodluck Jonathan of gross human rights manhandle in the indictment of the war on terrorists.
The Nigerian military strengths had denied the assertion which President Buhari vowed to examine.
Buhari "leaves with minimal viable military help with his fight against the Islamist aggressors who have transformed the upper east of his nation into a blood zone," the Associated Press (AP) gave an account of Wednesday.
The US government has promised to help Nigeria rout the insurgency yet it is disallowed under law from sending weapons to nations that neglect to handle human rights manhandle.
"Regretably, i dare say the Leahy Law by the United States on the grounds of problematic affirmations of human rights infringement leveled against our strengths has denied us access to suitable key weapons to indict the war," Buhari said.
Tending to a crowd of people of strategy creators, activists and scholastics in Washington, Buhari whined that Nigerian powers had been left "to a great extent inept" even with Boko Haram's crusade of grabbing and bombings.
"They don't have the fitting weapons and innovation which we could have had if the alleged human rights infringement had not been an obstruction," he said.
"Unwittingly, and I set out say inadvertently, the utilization of the Leahy Law Amendment by the United States government has supported and abetted the Boko Haram terrorists."
He engaged both the White House and the US Congress to discover a way around the law — presented by Senator Patrick Leahy in 1997 — and to supply Nigerian troops with cutting edge weapons under an arrangement "with negligible strings."
Since 2009, Boko Haram has been attempting to set up an Islamist breakaway state in a contention that has seen 15,000 individuals murdered and 1.5 million dislodged.
The bunch's ruthlessness and specifically the mass hijacking and subjugation of schoolgirls has stunned world supposition.
In June, Human rights guard dog Amnesty International said there was adequate confirmation to dispatch an examination concerning senior Nigerian officers for atrocities.
In a 133-page report, the gathering rebuked the armed force for the extrajudicial execution of 1,200 individuals and the torment or discretionary confinement of thousands more.
Buhari demands that the charges are not demonstrated, but rather he has supplanted his senior military officers and has guaranteed to research the allegations.
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