The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused military and police chiefs of subterranean plots to sweep under the carpet, the deadliest terrorist attacks in Nigeria of year 2023 which were the Christmas eve coordinated terror attacks in 23 Plateau State communities by suspected armed Fulani terrorists in which over 200 villagers mainly Christian natives were murdered and their housing assets burnt to the ground by the marauding terrorists.
HURIWA said the signal from the public statements and actions of virtually all the service chiefs including the Chief of Defence Staff and the National Security Adviser to the President, show a notorious proclivity to sweep these crimes against humanity under the carpet of impunity.
HURIWA restated her conviction that the only reason terrorists continue to attack soft targets and get away with their crimes against humanity is because there are no consequences for offenders of the laws even as the government tolerates impunity.
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Conversely, HURIWA backs the position of the Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State who believes and has professed in the media that the incessant attacks on the state are acts of terrorism, claiming security agents know the masterminds.
According to him, the earlier Nigeria deals with these attacks, the better as he claimed those sponsoring terrorism are known even as the Plateau State government through the governor stated also as follows:
“I believe that the sponsors of the terrorists, the financiers of the terrorists, and those who arm the terrorists are known.
“And the security agencies know them or they have the capacity to know them. And that is why we are insisting that the security agencies must do their work, which is to protect lives and properties,” he maintained.
HURIWA in a media statement maintained that the way and manner that the heads of all the relevant security agencies have moved on from the Plateau State attacks by armed terrorists and are no longer seemingly under any kind of pressure to arrest the suspects, show that these crimes on the Plateau State will be swept under the carpet which makes Nigeria a nation that officially tolerates impunity and lawlessness.