Abuja, January 09: Nigerian Senate has given the Obama administration a one-week ultimatum to remove the country’s name from a terror screening list or face a possible diplomatic row.
The West African country was blacklisted by the US as a country whose citizens would receive additional searching while passing through American airports.
Senate’s spokesperson Anyaogu Eze has said it would take “appropriate action” if the US failed to remove the country’s name from the watchlist.
He said the “obvious flaws” by the US security system led to the failed attack and accused the American security agents of incompetence and irresponsibility.
Notably, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, was arrested after allegedly trying to set off a bomb hidden in his underwear on a US Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas day.
–PTI