Ex-UK Minister asks UK parliament to sanction Nigerian officials over #EndSARS protest
Theresa Villiers, who is a former Environment Secretary in the UK has called on the country’s government to impose crucial sanctions against Nigerian leader over the #ENDSARS protests.
Speaking during a one-hour-twenty-minutes debate held in British Parliament to discuss the possible sanctions against the Nigerian government, Villiers asked the UK Government to place travel ban and freeze assets of Nigerian officials found to be involved in suppression of the protests.
The former Minister turned parliamentarian also disclosed that reports she gathered from some of her constituents who were of Nigerian descent and information from the Amnesty International, showed a gross violation of peoples’ rights in the way the #EndSARS protests were suppressed.
A few other parliamentarians supported her call and argued that the only way the UK government could express its dissatisfaction with the alleged rights violation was through the imposition of targeted sanctions.
Source: Gossips24.com
