Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has expressed its disappointment and shock after the Armed Forces have purposefully declined to crush terrorists in the North-West region.
“We regret to observe that these terrorists who are mostly ethnic Fulani same ethnicity with all the heads of the internal security institutions are still operating freely in Kaduna, Niger, Zamfara and Katsina and have killed scores of citizens only in the last few days,” HURIWA said in a statement on Monday signed by its coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, as per the Daily Post.
The group raised the question of why President Muhammadu Buhari, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has failed to fulfil his primary duty as the protector of the lives and properties of all Nigerians.
In addition, HURIWA cited the Global Terrorism Index (2019), which put Nigeria as the third-worst nation vulnerable to terrorism with no significant progress since 2017.
“For the past six years, the insecurity across Nigeria has worsened beyond the Boko Haram insurgency,” the group added.
“Virtually all parts of Nigeria are currently battling one form or another of violent crimes, evidence that the president has failed to keep his promise on security.”
According to Daily Post, terrorist organisations — dubbed as bandits — have continued to operate freely in North-West Nigeria. On Monday, there were cases of abduction of commuters travelling the Abuja-Kaduna highway by gunmen suspected to belong to one of those groups.
