President
Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after his four-day visit to the United
States.
During the visit, Buhari met with President Barack Obama and Vice
President Joe Biden. He also met with the World Bank President Jim Yong-Kim, where a
$2.1 billion aid was announced for Nigeria’s Boko Haram ravaged north east
states.
The Nigerian leader also had a session with Nigerians living in
the United States and a reunion meeting with some of his classmates at the War
College in Pennsylvania, which he attended in 1980.
In one of his last acts in Washington, Buhari expressed
frustration that the United States was still hiding behind the Leahy Law to
deny Nigeria the much needed weapons to battle Boko Haram.
The law forbids the United States from selling weapons to
countries abusing human rights, a constant accusation against Nigerian armed
forces prosecuting the Boko Haram war since 2009.
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