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Nigerian Gov’t Irresponsible In Protecting Youths – Hillary Clinton

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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 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.”

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“The government of Nigeria has been, in my view, somewhat derelict in

its responsibility for protecting boys and girls, men and women,” she

 

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

 

But in November 2013, the current Secretary of State, John Kerry,

granted that request.

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