United
States’ former 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 over 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 that
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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