The United States confirmed fears
of a possible threat to the peace
in Africa by the violent
Islamic seat called Boko Haram and
volunteers to collaborate with
the government in curbing the sects threat. The commander of the US Africa command, gen. carter Ham, said
the Boko
Haram menace in the north –eastern part of the country was not just of
serious concern to Nigeria but to the US
and indeed the international community. General ham said, “ we
are very concerned about the
linkage between Boko Harm and all other extremely organizations in
Africa and other places and so we
(US) will, and other places and so we (US) will, find way
to collaborate to address
this” united states (US) president barrack Obama is getting tough on human right
violations, atrocities and
widespread violence around the world Nigerians and United states (US)
President Barack Obama is getting tough on human rights violent, atrocities and
widespread violence around the world.
Nigerians
and other nationalities identified by the American government perpetrating
these acts and supporting atrocities including Boko Haram and religious
violence would be denied entry into the U.S.
According to a recent white House statement, Obama has
signed an executive order suspending entry privileges to the U.S. any alien
“who planned, ordered, assisted, aided and abetted, communities or otherwise
participated in, including through command responsibility, widespread or
systematic violence and other against any civilian population.
Specifically, a white House official yesterday
clarified that the order would affect Nigerians against the backdrop of recent
Boko Haram violence and other atrocities that have already been and may be
recorded in the country.
Answering questions from the guardian whether this
order has anything to do with Nigerian and the country’s encounter with Boko
Haram and religious violence, Caitlin Hayden, Deputy Spokesperson of the
national security council at the white house answered in the affirmative and
said Late Monday that “in answer to your questions, the president’s executive
Order applies globally”.
Hayden added that the presidential order also
empowered the secretary of state with the “respo9nsibility for implementing the
order, including identifying those persons to which it applies.
According to the president order released early in
month – August 4-president Obama determined that “that it is in the interests
of the united states to take action to restrict the international travel and to
suspend the entry into the united states, as immigrants or non-immigrants of
certain persons who have engaged in the acts outlined in section 1 of this
proclamation.
The section lists violence against civilians, war
crimes, crimes against humanity and violations of human rights. Indeed the
section says persons who even attempted or conspired to perpetrate any of these
acts would also fall under the no-entry to the U.S. hammer of presidential
declaration.
U.S. officials explained that while the presidential
order should not be seen as targeting any specific individual or nation, recent
acts of terrorism and widespread violence in the Arab world and rising
terrorism and violence in African may have influenced the presidential
declaration.
Late last month while meeting with four African heads
of state from west at the white House, Obama personally expressed concern at
the troubling rise of terrorism in African.