Military onslaught against terrorists, scripted propaganda – HURIWA

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has described as described reports by the military that it is fighting terrorists in the Northeast as a scripted propaganda.

In statement on Monday, HURIWA demanded that the military to demonstrate with empirical evidence devoid of media propaganda of any concrete counter-terror war going on in the North West.

HURIWA said the entire scripted propaganda about the so-called onslaught against North West terrorists remain in the realm of mere propaganda until Nigerians are shown evidence as the Army usually do when they kill Igbo youths under the guise of killing members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra or the Eastern Security Network allegedly affiliated to IPOB.

The group said the hierarchies of the armed forces of Nigeria is more interested in ‘fighting’ North West terrorists that almost captured the nation’s set of power with media propaganda whereas the terrorists are still holding on to large expanse of landed territorial areas in the North West with many of the kingpins holding conversations with some state governments.

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HURIWA also expressed shock that someone who swore an oath under the Nigerian constitution as the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State is now playing the role of an arbitrator and is quoted copiously in the media as absorbing and forgiving mass murderers including someone who confessed in the electronic media in series of interviews with Trust Tv and BBC that he was involved in alleged mass killings of citizens of Nigeria.

The Rights group is therefore accusing the government of Zamfara State of aiding and abetting terrorism against the federal Republic of Nigeria going by the public affirmation of the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State in which he has exercised judicial powers that he does not possess.