Hillary Clinton
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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