U.S said it would not give up on its opposition tothe same sex prohibition law recently signed byPresident Goodluck Jonathan.

The United States government said,
yesterday, it would not give up on its opposition to
the same sex prohibition law recently signed by
President Goodlucj Jonathan.
According to the US government, there is still a ray
of hope to ensure there is no violation of human
rights in the implementation of the law.
US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,
Linda Thomas Greenfield, made this known on a
live-web chat programme with journalists in
African countries.
“US is opposed to the legislation targeted against
the gay people and we will continue to press
forward to see that it is changed so that those
group of people will have freedom to exercise their
rights.

”We are of the view that criminalisation against
anybody on the basis of their sexual orientation
and affiliation is wrong and we will continue to
press Nigeria government and the legislators to
change the anti-gay law,” Greenfield said.
Speaking on US-Nigeria’s effort towards
combating Boko Haram extremism, the assistance
secretary said the group had been more daring in
carrying out attacks against innocent people in the
country, adding that the US was working closely
with the Federal Government to bring an end to
extremism in the country.
She said: “There has to be a multi-faceted
approach to dealing with extremism and we will
continue to work with Nigeria to combat it.
“Terrorism we know affects the whole of Nigerian
people and with our collaboration with Nigerian
government we hope to bring an end to it in the
country as we will not relent in our effort at
fighting it to a finish.”
On the US relationship with African nations
generally, she said her government signed a
Memorandum of Understanding with the African
Union in different areas and hopes to build African
capacity to solve crisis within the continent.