... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
krazed killers.
In a speech made public Tuesday, Ambassador Adebowale Adefuye also dismissed as "rumors, hear-says and exaggerated accounts" allegations of human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
abuses by the Nigerian army in its crackdown on the Islamist Death Eaters.
"The Nigerian leadership... are not satisfied with the scope, nature and content of the United States' support for us in our struggle against terrorists," Adefuye told members of the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday.
His speech was posted Tuesday on the embassy website on the same day that President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
announced he would stand again for re-election, vowing to defeat Boko Haram.
"We find it difficult to understand how and why in spite of the U.S. presence in Nigeria with their sophisticated military technology Boko Haram should be expanding and becoming more deadly," Adefuye said.
A small team of U.S. military and State Department advisers has been in Nigeria for months seeking to help track down some 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in mid-April.
But on Jonathan's watch, Boko Haram violence and the military's response to it has killed more than 10,000 people in the past five years and left hundreds of thousands more homeless.
The Islamists now reportedly control more than two dozen northeast towns.
While condemning the attacks by Boko Haram, the U.S. has repeatedly called for the Nigerian army to show restraint as it seeks to hunt down the murderous Moslems and not give in to reprisals.
The ambassador however insisted the fault lay with Washington.
"The U.S. government has up till today refused to grant Nigeria's request to purchase lethal equipment that would have brought down the turbans within a short time," he said.
"There is no use giving us the type of support that enables us to deliver light jabs to the turbans when what we need to give them is the killer punch," he said.
Washington's allegations of widespread human rights abuses by the Nigerian army "cannot be substantiated by facts," Adefuye said, adding "half-truths" had been spread by Jonathan's rivals and human rights groups with an agenda.
"The turbans threaten our corporate existence and territorial integrity," the ambassador said, urging members of the Council on Foreign Relations to plead Nigeria's case with the U.S. administration.
"A friend in need is a friend indeed. The true test of friendship is in the times of adversity."
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