Former
President Goodluck Jonathan has met with the United States Congress
House Sub Committee on Africa to speak on the Niger Delta issue and the
challenges facing Christians in Nigeria.
Jonathan, Peter Obi with US Reps
Former President Goodluck Jonathan and former Governor of Anambra
State, have been pictured with American Congressman Representative,
Steve Chabot and Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee at the United States
House of Representatives on Thursday, February 2, 2017.
The ex-president also later met with the United States Congress
House Sub Committee on Africa to speak on the Niger Delta issue and the
challenges facing Christians in Nigeria.
Jonathan's spokesperson Ikechukwu Eze, said the meeting was part of
efforts of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation to fulfill its mission to
promote peace and prosperity in Nigeria and Africa.
The former president who was invited by the U.S. Congress
subcommittee spoke in his capacity as Chairman of the Goodluck Jonathan
Foundation.
Jonathan talked about his efforts to end impunity, specifically
citing the case of Kabiru Sokoto, the mastermind of the Christmas Day
bombing of Saint Theresa's Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger state who
was arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned by his administration
and was the first successful prosecution of a terrorist attack on a
place of worship in Nigeria's history.
He said: "That promise was fulfilled on the 20th of December
2013 when Kabiru Umar, aka Kabiru Sokoto, was sentenced to life
imprisonment after my administration investigated that crime, identified
him as the mastermind, arrested him and diligently prosecuted him and
some of his associates."
The former president also noted that his administration's
prosecution of the perpetrators of the deadly bombing of an office of
the Independent National Electoral Commission also in Madalla on April
8, 2011 was the first successful prosecution of terrorists in Nigeria.
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