Dear Rep Scott Perry,
Your statement claiming USAID funds Boko Haram terrorists has sent shockwaves through Nigeria and elicited targeting of innocent Christians and aid workers because of your baseless claims.
To make matters worse, you have further endangered hundreds of American diplomats in one of the largest U.S. embassies in the world many of whom already lost their jobs due to the vampiric shutdown by lawless non-state actors in DC.
You may not know this but I evacuated along with hundreds of American diplomats from Nigeria after a bomb was planted in a US embassy compound in Abuja by Islamist terrorists. They and their families were internationally displaced for months before returning in early 2023 to Nigeria. For you to make such false and unfounded allegations, right after Musk’s admission that USAID’s $50 million condoms used for bombings by Hamas terrorists was untrue, irresponsibly jeopardizes the security of American diplomats and their families, local Christians and aidworkers in Nigeria.
It also a slap in the face to several of your house colleagues who have courageously traveled with me on bipartisan fact-finding CODELs visiting victims of persecution and Boko Haram terrorism. I hope you will quickly repudiate your false claim regarding Boko Haram before anyone gets hurt. No political propaganda or showboating is worth putting Americans lives at risk abroad for a lie.
Emmanuel Ogebe
