A top official in Nigeria condemned calls from prominent American and other human rights figures for the country to abolish the imposition of sharia , or Islamic law, on citizens regardless of religion, dismissively remarking, “We are not Venezuela.”

The official, Presidential Adviser on Policy Communication Daniel Bwala, appeared to be arguing that calls to ban states from imposing sharia and creating rogue morality police units was akin to colonialism and that, unlike Venezuela, Nigeria was no longer a colony.

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