Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has come under
fire for saying that the repentant Boko Haram terrorists are ‘truly repentant.’
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, said
the Governor must cover his face in shame for defending terrorists.
Zulum had a few days back said he is confident that over 90
percent of Boko Haram members who have surrendered to the military are truly
repentant.
He said this on the backdrop of criticisms trailing the
Buhari government and the Nigerian armed forces for granting amnesty to
terrorists.
The group reminded Governor Zulum that millions of the
victims of the heart-rending terror campaigns since over a decade are scattered
all over the world as refugees and internally displaced persons.
The human rights advocacy group wondered why the governor is
allegedly cuddling the mass murderers and terrorists and baptising them as
repentant.
“What then is the concept of government and the dispensation
of justice, including bringing killers to face the long arm of the law and for
the victims to receive social justice and closure to their sufferings?
“HURIWA thinks this Federal government has been so unfair to
the victims of terrorism in Nigeria”, the group said in a statement signed by
Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, its national coordinator.
The rights group called on the Federal Government to perish
the idea of implementing the unconstitutional programme of reintegration of
terrorists.
According to HURIWA, the move will rubbish the essence,
significance and the place of the grundnorm in the society, “and has made
Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari look like a Banana republic in the
eyes of the international community.”
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