The United States Congress has adopted an amendment that will enable that country give full security assistance to Nigeria and also mobilise other countries, the Africa Union and United Nations Peacekeepers against the Boko Haram sect, in the ongoing rescue operation of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok on April 14 2014.
The U.S House of Representatives adopted the amendment by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, which establishes an important priority for the US Department of Defence, condemning Boko Haram’s crimes against humanity.
“The amendment sends a clear message to Nigeria and the international community that girls around the world have the right to be free and live without fear and should not be forced to risk their lives to get an education,” Lee noted in a statement she issued.
Lee, a senior member on the House Homeland Security Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, and co-chair of the House Congressional Children’s Caucus, issued the statement after her amendment was unanimously approved and accepted by the House of Representatives last Thursday.
Specifically, the amendment condemns Boko Haram for its crimes against humanity and its kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State.
The U.S lawmaker said, “The world is outraged over the abduction of over 200 girls from their school in rural Nigeria by terrorist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram’s threat to sell the girls into slavery for $12 each is outrageous and brings new urgency to the need to stamp out modern day slavery and human trafficking in all forms.
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