There are several indications that the United States President, Senator Barrack Obama is presently under heat as a result of the indecision of his administration to list the entire Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorists Organisation {FTO}
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Checks from LEADERSHIP revealed that President Barrack Obama is being seriously criticised by some top United States lawmakers who are saying that the President did not do well by merely listing three out of the leaders of the Islamic Sect as Foreign Terrorists.
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Further investigations showed that the United States lawmakers are presently planning to impose?a law which they plan to use to mount serious pressure on President Barrack Obama in order to make him designate the entire Boko Haram group as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO).
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The United States lawmakers from the House of Representatives who are reportedly not happy with President Obama's dispositions to Boko Haram, will today, Tuesday hold an oversight hearing?where the US President will be compelled to explain the reason why his administration has not been able to designate the entire terror group as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation.
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It was also gathered that after the hearing, which was initiated by the Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee of the House, the US lawmakers may enact a law to compel the Obama-led administration to name the entire Boko Haram Sect as a Foreign Terrorists Organisation {FTO}.
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It would be recalled that shortly after the United States Department of States named three of the leaders of the Boko Haram Sect as Foreign Terrorists, two US lawmakers, Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, issued a joint statement, saying that the designation of three individual Boko Haram terrorists was not nearly enough. ?
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The two US lawmakers urged Secretary of State Clinton, Ms. Hilary Clinton, to immediately designate Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), noting that the dsignation of three Boko Haram terrorists was insufficient.?
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According to Representatives King and Meehan?”The legal ramifications of this designation only affect dealings with three designated individuals, and not the wider Boko Haram organization, which is growing in intent, capability and targeting capacity”
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“A conservative estimate of Boko Haram’s size would be a couple hundred, making three members symbolic, but not sufficient. ? The designation does not allow the Department of the Treasury to sanction additional Boko Haram terrorists”?
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?In order for others to be penalized for membership in Boko Haram, the Department of the Treasury will have to prove the individuals’ relationship directly to the three terrorists designated, they said, adding that if the three individuals were killed, the designations would be meaningless. ? ??
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“Nothing should be off the table; the U.S. Intelligence Community should have every available tool at its disposal to combat this organization. The Department of State refuses to explain its rationale for not designating Boko Haram an FTO, which puts American lives at risk”
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“Given Boko Haram’s trajectory and intent to carry out terrorist attacks against Western targets, including possibly the Homeland, we must take the growing threat seriously.”
