The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on
Thursday berated President Muhammadu Buhari for the current state of insecurity
across the country.
HURIWA also asked President Buhari to blame himself for the
level of insecurity in Nigeria.
The rights group made the call while condemning the arrest
of protesters in Katsina State.
In a statement signed and forwarded by its
National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, the rights group also canvassed for
the unconditional release of all the leaders of the protests in the North
arrested by the security forces on alleged orders of President Muhammadu
Buhari.
According to the rights group, peaceful protests are covered
by chapter four of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which
guarantees citizenship rights such as freedoms of association, Expression and
Movement.
The statement reads: “The President of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria is first and foremost the father of the nation and the
Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria whose primary duty as spelt
out in the Constitution in section 15(2) (B) that the security and welfare of
the people SHALL be the Primary Purpose of Government, must never be seen
offering lame, timid and inexcusable reasons for the widespread violence and
mass killings going on all over the Country with Northern Nigeria as the epicenter
of TERRORISM and armed conflicts.
“This government in Abuja has for five years given
meaningless excuses on why it can not arrest, prosecute and punish mass
killers. This is absolutely intolerable. The President is constitutionally
obliged to defend and protect all the territorial assets of Nigeria from all
armed marauders, terrorists and armed bandits.
“If he or she lacks the strategy to so actualize stability
of the National security then he/she has no business remaining in office a day
more than he has failed to discharge the Primary Constitutional imperative of
his office because the citizens are the owners of the sovereignty of Nigeria
who gave the President the legitimacy to exercise authority for a statutory
period of time in line with the provisions of the Supreme Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“HURIWA has watched as groups of youth organizations known
commonly as the Coalition of Northern Youths (CNY), Northern States’ chapters
in their state capitals and across the North including Katsina State staged
peaceful protests over incessant killings in Niger State and the entire
northern states.
“The CNY is blaming the governments for inaction in tackling
the security challenges bedeviling northern Nigeria as armed bandits kill
citizens, rape women and their daughters and destroy properties with impunity
while the government seems to be watching helplessly”.
The groups which made recommendations on how to check
insecurity lamented that hundreds of people have been rendered homeless,
properties that cannot be quantified monetarily destroyed or stolen, millions
of Naira paid as ransom, children orphaned and human dignity butchered”.
HURIWA has also blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the
mass killings because of the unconstitutional and illegal practice of releasing
detained terrorists into the society as repentant terrorists as against the
demands of the common laws to prosecute and punish mass murderers in accordance
with the provisions of the law.
“No sane society that is functional and lawful will release
killers without letting them face the full weight of the law. A nation that
dines and wines with terrorists as the current Administration does, will
inevitably be providing resources for armed terrorists to destabilise the
country “.
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