Human Rights Writers Association
of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called on the National Assembly to begin the
impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari over his
administration’s inability to stop incessant herdsmen killings.
A statement on Thursday by its
National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs
Director, Zainab Yusuf, made the demand in reaction to latest killings in
Plateau State.
HURIWA accused the presidency of
allowing over 6,000 innocent people to be killed by armed herdsmen and that it
had refused to declare the killer gangs terrorists.
The organisation said the
recurring attacks on Christian farming communities in the North Central State
of Plateau including the invasion of the University of Jos, Bauchi Road Hostel
by military uniforms’ wearing herdsmen, shows that the various acts of
coordinated attacks may have been planned over time.
The Rights group stated that the
serial killings of unarmed civilians while Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong
saunters in and out of the Presidency in Abuja without displaying courageous
leadership by raising objections to the willful failures of the Federal
government, was enough reason for his impeachment as well.
HURIWA accused the Buhari
government of shielding the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association “even
when there are evidences beyond the shadows of empirical doubts to link this
group to the activities of the armed killer gangs affiliated to armed Fulani
herdsmen”.
HURIWA said: “The activities of
the killer gangsters from the armed Fulani herdsmen supported by Miyetti Allah
cattle owners Association and backed by the Presidency have become the greatest
threat to the survival of constitutional democracy and the President has
persistently breached the clear provisions of the grund norm which confers
legitimacy to the position and title of President and commander-in-chief of
armed forces of Nigeria which he holds in trust for the people of Nigeria.
“It goes without any
contradiction that Muhammadu Buhari has lost all the constitutional legitimacy
of the Presidency of Nigeria and is occupying that position extra-legally. He
should be impeached.
“You can’t exercise
constitutional legitimacy when your administration watches conspiratorially as
the kinsmen of the holder of the current office of President watches and does
nothing whereas thousands of Nigerians are despatched to the early graves and
these killers are roaming freely and even addressing media conferences and
appearing on prime time television news interviews.
“Buhari as far as the
constitution is concerned has lost his legitimacy and is therefore not
exercising his powers legitimately. The National Assembly must re-convene now
and kickstart his removal from office or else the Country may snowball into a
civil conflagration”.
HURIWA also urged the authority
of the Nigerian military to stop the ongoing verbal exchanges against perceived
elders of Plateau State and embark on surgical operations to degrade, decimate
and destroy the armed Fulani killer gangs creating spectacular unrests in
Plateau State and prosecute the sponsors such as the Miyetti Allah cattle
owners Association.
It further called on the security
forces to secure the lives of students and civilians just as it condemned the
violence unleashed on the University of Jos by armed Fulani herdsmen.
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