US Bombings: Government Owes Responsibility To Protect All Nigerians - Prof Badejo

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : In actual fact, States agreed under soft international law in 2005 at the UN General Assembly, and under the Constitutive Act of the African Union before then, that when a State is unable or unwilling to protect its citizens, other States or a coalition of the willing can intervene and protect civilians even if the State with the responsibility objects.
48% : Following the Boxing Day air strike by the United States Government on terrorist camps in Sokoto State, Northwest Nigeria, former deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Somalia, and a former Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Babafemi Badejo has asserted that the federal government has a responsibility to protect all Nigerians.

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