Fani-Kayode reacts to US reports on damning human rights violation by Buhari

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the report of human rights violation by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

DAILY POST had earlier reported that the United States Government released a condemnatory human rights report on Nigeria, ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit.http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/24/us-releases-damning-human-rights-violations-nigeria-ahead-buharis-visit/

The former Minister took to his Facebook account on Tuesday to react to the report, describing it as a welcome development.

He wrote, “Last Friday the United States Government released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying “grave violations of human rights” continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were never prosecuted by the Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“It also said, inter alia, that Nigeria is suftering from ‘ethnic, religious and regional violence.’ This is the bitter truth and the report is a welcome development.

“Ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass murder, state-sponsored terror, unprecedented corruption, monumental incompetence, the persecution of opposition figures and their families, the violation of court orders, the intimidation of the National Assembly, the Judiciary and the Fourth Estate of the realm which is the media, the targeting and cold-blooded murder of Christians, Igbo (IPOB) youths and Shiite Muslims, the gradual and incremental Islamisation of the nation, the humiliation of the Church and Christian clerics, the covert support for and encouragement of murderous Islamist and jihadist terror groups like the Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram and so on and so forth are now the cornerstone and hallmark of President Buhari’s government.

“I sincerely hope that these issues will form part of the deliberations and discussions that will take place in the meeting between President Donald Trump and President Buhari in Washington on 30th April.

“They should also discuss the shameful way in which the President Barack Obama’s administration interfered in Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election and assisted Buhari to come to power and the $500 million that the Buhari administration contributed, through various fronts and companies like the Chagoury brothers, to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.”