The federal government has
summoned Stuart Symington, United States ambassador to Nigeria, over Donald
Trump’s usage of a demeaning term to describe African nations.
The US president is reported to
have questioned why the US would want to have immigrants from “shithole
countries” such as Haiti and African nations.
The comment was reportedly made
in the Oval Office.
Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of
foreign affairs, is scheduled to meet with the US ambassador Monday.
Trump’s remark has drawn
widespread criticism from several African countries and also the United
Nations. The UN branded it “racist”.
Rupert Coleville, spokesperson
for the UN high commissioner for human rights, said: “If confirmed, these are
shocking and shameful comments from the President of the United States. There
is no other word you can use but ‘racist’.
“You cannot dismiss entire
countries and continents as ‘shitholes’, whose entire populations who are not
white, are therefore not welcome.”
African Union ambassadors to the
UN have demanded a retraction of the statement and an apology from the US
leader.
“The AU mission condemns the
statement in the strongest terms and demands a retraction of the comment as
well as an apology to not only the Africans but to all people of African
descent across the globe,” the group of over 50 African nations said in a statement.
Ghana, Botswana and South Africa
have all summoned US ambassadors in their countries over the matter.
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