Former US Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton, said on Wednesday night in New York that the Nigerian
government had shown irresponsibility in matters relating to girls and boys
over the years. Clinton, who is a likely presidential candidate in 2016, added
her voice to an increasingly widespread outrage that has followed the kidnap of
more than 250 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Borno
State by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14, 2014.
She described the action of the
terrorist group as “abominable, criminal, an act of terrorism” which required
the “fullest response possible first and foremost from the government of
Nigeria.” “The government of Nigeria has been, in my view, somewhat derelict in
its responsibility for protecting boys and girls, men and women,” she said.
The Daily Mail reports Clinton as
saying that during her tenure as the Secretary of States, she was pressured by
the Justice Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the head of the U.S. military’s Africa Command to add Boko
Haram to the state’s official list of terror organisations, a request she
refused. But in November 2013, the current Secretary of State, John Kerry,
granted that request.
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