#EndSARS: Don't Brush Off UK Parliament Debate

Professor, Bolaji Akinyemi, Former Nigeria's Minister of External Affairs

 

The Nigerian government has been advised not to dismiss the threat of sanctions by Uk parliamentarians against top Nigerian officials and security agents involved in the alleged violation of #EndSARS protesters' rights.

In a report titled "#EndSARS: Don't Brush Off UK Parliament Debate, Former Foreign Minister Advises Nigeria", Arise News Official on its Instagram handle credits the comment to a former Nigerian Minister of External Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi. The statement came after the Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyeama had played down the sanction threat by the parliamentarians, saying that legislators are not responsible for imposing sanctions on other nations.

Professor Bolaji Akinyemi has thus advised the federal government to take advantage of the several available channels to lay their own side of the story before the United Kingdom's House of Commons. In his words "It is true the British Parliament is not the ultimate but God helps a British minister who ignores the feelings on the floor of the commons.

"Many ministers have come to grief by taking a lackadaisical attitude towards the view of parliament. So I wouldn't brush off quite lightly the debate in the commons" he said on ARISE News. 

See the video below, courtesy, ARISE News: