Obama bars Boko Haram backers, others from U.S. .

Guardian

24 August 2011

Obama bars Boko Haram backers, others from U.S. .

UNITED States (U.S.) President Barack Obama is getting tough on human rights violations, atrocities and widespread violence around the world.

Nigerians and other nationalities identified by the American government as perpetrating these acts and   supporting atrocities including Boko Haram and religious violence would be denied entry into the U.S.

According to a recent White House  statement, Obama has signed an executive order suspending entry privileges to the U.S. by any alien “who planned, ordered, assisted, aided and abetted, committed or otherwise participated in, including through command responsibility, widespread or systematic violence against any civilian population.”

Specifically, a White House official yesterday clarified that the order would affect  Nigerians against the backdrop of recent Boko Haram violence and other atrocities that have already been and may be recorded in the country.