…Urges him to act fast to stave off Nigeria’s collapse
Civil Rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the escalating vicious attacks targeting villages in the North West by armed Fulani militia.
HURIWA claimed that these killings take place because whereas the President misuses the security forces to go after unarmed agitators for self government in the South East and seeking to crush the vigilante, Eastern Security Network, set up by South East youths to drive away armed Fulani herdsmen from attacking region, the same federal government watches in a conspiratorial silence while armed bandits are destroying Northern States.
Recalling that the Nigeria Police in Kebbi State said 66 people were killed by bandits in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area of the State, the rights group carpeted President Buhari for treating the armed terrorists with kid gloves.
HURIWA alleged that the federal government pampers these armed northern bandits only because the attackers share same ethno-religious affiliations with him as mostly Fulani but the same President viciously deploys soldiers and police to the South East whereby they are using unorthodox style to try to check the rising clamour by some Youth for self determination and in the process killing innocent youths.
It condemned the attitude of the Department of State Services (DSS) for failing to arrest Senator Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa and one Isa Tafida Mafindi who are known to have openly bragged that they will attack members of the Igbo ethnic nationality.
The rights group stated that the said Mr. Mafindi who identifies himself on tweeter as a member of a member of the National Executive Committee/Board of Trustees of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and owner of a business concern, known as Halal abattoirs, openly canvassed through a recorded conversation with a lady author of a book, the recorded conversation was carried on YouTube of attacks of Igbo living in the North as a revenge for the rising agitations by some Igbo youths canvassing self government.
On his part, the Bauchi State born Senator Bulkachuwa openly threatened that President Buhari’s administration will declare war on South East to crush the rising clamour by some Igbo youths for self government.
The rights group described the deliberate failure of the DSS to arrest the duo as part of the larger conspiracy by some persons high up there in the Buhari administration to orchestrate the genocide of the Igbo-speaking nationality.
HURIWA therefore urged the international community not to sit idly by and allow President Buhari and his war mongering cabal to start off a pogrom against Igbo ethnicity, wondering why the President has elected to permit armed Fulani militia members known as armed bandits to continue embarking on killing spree in some North West States whereas he has decided to massively deploy heavy land and air power to the South East to go after mostly innocent Igbo youths who aren’t the real armed attackers of the security facilities and operatives of the armed security forces.
The rights group which described as “despicable, reprehensible and totally abhorrent” the recent killings of 66 villagers in Kebbi State called on Buhari to use his presidential powers correctly to go after terrorists notwithstanding that majority of these terrorists and armed bandits share same religious faith and tribe with him.
It said the nepotistic appointment of only Fulani heads of internal security architectures is the fundamental reason these armed Fulani herdsmen and terrorists are having a field day in the North and other parts of Nigeria killing, maiming and destroying villagers and villages and kidnapping students and travellers and the security forces are watching them as if they are above decisive crushing.
The civil rights advocacy group therefore stated that the fact that President Buhari picks and chooses where to send soldiers and police to unleash venomous violence against civilian populace, is the reason armed Fulani militia and terrorists are openly carrying out their well-coordinated attacks against the citizens just as the rights group said armed northern bandits have killed more policemen and soldiers as opposed to the number killed unfortunately by the so called unknown gunmen in the South East and South-South.
