The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Monday condemned President Muhammadu Buhari over terrorism in the country.
The National Coordinator of the group, Mr. Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement said the Buhari’s government’s rehabilitation and de-radicalization of Boko Haram terrorists was the reason for the looming kidnapping in the country.
“HURIWA however, blamed the Federal Government for the spate of attacks of soft targets by series of terrorists all across the country including the upsurge in the abduction for the ransom of school children of Katsina state by daredevil terrorists christened by the current administration as armed bandits.
They said the frequent rehabilitation, reintegration, and the so-called de-radicalization of arrested terrorists by the government is the reason for the spate of bloody violence and kidnapping.
“The releases of detained Boko haram terrorists by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over the years under the dubious guise that they are rehabilitated as repentant terrorists deserving reintegration even whilst over 2 million families displaced by these terrorists are scattered in the different dilapidated buildings and huts called internally displaced center are neglected and denied justice for the killings of their breadwinner and loved ones, are the exact reasons for the widespread attacks by terrorists in Northern Nigeria”, Onwubike said in the statement.
The group also blamed the Manner at which Katsina governor, Bello Massari had been relating with bandits in the state.
It said, “The governor has been known to have publicly associated and communed with notorious terrorists also called armed bandits who were allegedly settled by the Katsina State administration to lay down their weapons and ceasefire which the terrorists never complied with.”