UNGA: Tinubu, family face no US movement restrictions — Jimoh Ibrahim

Senator Jimoh Ibrahim (File picture)

President Bola Tinubu and members of his family “enjoy unimpeded transit in the United States and cannot be arrested while attending the United Nations General Assembly,” Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, has said.

Ibrahim, who is also Chairman of the United Nations Committee on Budget and Administration, said the Nigerian Mission in New York had received “no notification from the US government imposing any restriction on Tinubu’s movement during the UNGA.”

The envoy stated this in a statement released on Sunday issued by the Office of the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York.

Citing Section 11 of the 1947 UN-US Agreement, Ibrahim said representatives of member states and their families were protected from impediments to transit to and from the UN headquarters district.