Pressure Nigeria to disband Hisbah, ban Sharia law, Obadare tells US congress during hearing
Ebenezer Obadare, a Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), says the United States should pressure Nigeria to make the Sharia law… pic.twitter.com/7qJxVkPpF0
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Pressure Nigeria to disband Hisbah, ban Sharia law, Obadare tells US congress during hearing
Ebenezer Obadare, a Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), says the United States should pressure Nigeria to make the Sharia law unconstitutional.
Obadare spoke as an expert witness at a roundtable convened by US lawmakers on Tuesday in Washington to discuss Nigeria’s escalating insecurity and an alleged targeted persecution of Christians.
At the discussion, US lawmakers had accused the Nigerian government of trying to run out the clock on the matter.
They described the killings as “a targeted campaign of religious cleansing”, vowing to act quickly and save more lives.
Obadare pointed to unchecked jihadist terror groups, particularly Boko Haram, as the root cause of the violence.
“Boko Haram’s barbarous and implacable campaign to overthrow the Nigerian state and establish an Islamic caliphate in its stead is the source of Nigeria’s present discontents,” he said.