The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has lashed out at the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi for playing it cool with Fulani terrorists.
HURIWA made the comment while chastising Magashi for his recent remark about the government’s failure to label bandits as terrorists.
HURIWA questioned why the Federal Government designated the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, or IPOB, as terrorists but not bandits.
Magashi had earlier said that the Federal Government’s hesitation in labeling bandits terrorists was due to due procedure.
He had stated that there was a protocol that had to be followed before bandits could be banned. HURIWA’s National Coordinator issued a statement about the partiality of the FG.
The statement reads: “A situation whereby Nigerians are taken for granted by the heads of the security architectures who are all of the same Northern Moslem extractions and we are told that the armed forces are waging military actions targeted at eradicating the terrorists in the North West who are mostly Fulani by ethnicity same as the heads of the security institutions under Muhammadu Buhari who appointed only his kinsmen into those strategic national institutions but in actual fact these same terrorists that the government has refused to classify appropriately as terrorists but prefers to call them bandits are still carrying out massive attacks on soft and military targets.”
“HURIWA as well as millions of rational Nigerians are not convinced that the armed forces headed by persons of same section of Nigeria and same religion are actually carrying out any military actions targeted at eradicating the terrorists in the North West,”
Source; Ghgossip.com
