Ogebe writes US Congressman Perry after Musk’s admission Hamas $50m USAID condoms bombings claim false
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
International human rights lawyer Emmanuel Ogebe has written to United States Congressman Scott Perry to publicly repudiate his claim that USAID funds Boko Haram to carry out terror acts in Nigeria.
Ogebe, who had earlier rebutted the claim, said Perry’s allegation endangers the lives of American diplomats and those of Christians and aid workers, and the lawmaker should withdraw it in line with Elon Musk’s admission that his own claim is not true that USAID funded Hamas with $50 million to procure condoms for bombings.
A copy of the letter, which Ogebe sent to TheNiche, is reproduced below:
Dear Rep Scott Perry,
Your statement claiming USAID funds Boko Haram terrorists has sent shockwaves through Nigeria and elicited targeting of innocent Christians and aid workers because of your baseless claims.
To make matters worse, you have further endangered hundreds of American diplomats in one of the largest U.S. embassies in the world many of whom already lost their jobs due to the vampiric shutdown by lawless non-state actors in DC.
You may not know this but I evacuated along with hundreds of American diplomats from Nigeria after a bomb was planted in a US embassy compound in Abuja by Islamist terrorists.
They and their families were internationally displaced for months before returning in early 2023 to Nigeria.
For you to make such false and unfounded allegations, right after Elon Musk’s admission that USAID’s $50 million condoms used for bombings by Hamas terrorists was untrue, irresponsibly jeopardizes the security of American diplomats and their families, local Christians and aid workers in Nigeria.
It also a slap in the face to several of your house colleagues who have courageously traveled with me on bipartisan factfinding CODELs visiting victims of persecution and Boko Haram terrorism.
I hope you will quickly repudiate your false claim regarding Boko Haram before anyone gets hurt. No political propaganda or showboating is worth putting Americans lives at risk abroad for a lie.
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