A civil rights advocacy group, HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA), has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for escalating vicious attacks on villages in the northwest Nigeria by armed Fulani militia.
HURIWA alleged that the killings take place because the President misuses the security forces to go after unarmed agitators for self-government in the southeast Nigeria and seeking to crush the vigilante, Eastern Security Network, (ESN) set up by southeast youths to drive away armed Fulani herdsmen from attacking southeast states; noting that the same federal government watches in a conspiratorial silence, the way armed bandits are destroying northern states.
The group recalled that the Nigeria Police in Kebbi State said that 66 people were killed by bandits in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. HURIWA, therefore, carpeted President Buhari for treating armed terrorists with kid gloves.
HURIWA alleged that the Federal government pampers armed northern bandits because the attackers share same ethno- religious affiliation with the President. The group decried that the President viciously deploys soldiers and police to Southeast Nigeria, using unorthodox style to try to check the rising clamour by some Youth for self-determination and in the process, killing innocent youths.
