Plateau massacre: Service chiefs, IGP, others incompetent—HURIWA

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has demanded for the sack of Nigeria’s service chiefs, the Inspector General of Police and the Minister of Police, saying they lack the capacity and will power to combat and defeat terror attacks on citizens.

HURIWA made the demand following the massacre of over 150 Christians in Plateau state by suspected armed Fulani terrorists on the Eve of Christmas.

The group wonder how on earth the President and the service chiefs are busy feasting in their different homes under the guise of celebrating the Christmas holiday whereas citizens are exposed to the dangerous attacks by armed terrorists wielding the most deadly military grade weapons.

“It is the most shameful show of incompetence on the part of the Commander-in-Chief  and his bunch of appointees holding command and ministerial positions linked to the protection of national security, to stand by even as many as 113 persons have been confirmed killed.

HURIWA blame the incompetent service chiefs and the IGP for making it seamless for daredevil  terrorists to  spread their killing sprees across many states in Nigeria, the cases in Taraba and Benue states are becoming increasingly worrisome to the extent that terrorists from Cameroon enter Nigeria and kill in the two states unchallenged.

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HURIWA described the continuous killings by the so-called unknown gunmen in the South East, and the persistent pogroms in Benue, Taraba and Plateau carefully choreographed by Fulani irredentists and terrorists, as unforgivable crimes against humanity.

The said it is so glaring that law and order has collapsed in substantial parts of Nigeria and given way to the regime of terrorists just as the Rights group condemned the fact that no fewer than three worshippers have reportedly been killed by unknown gunmen who invaded Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Nkweagu, in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

“HURIWA is calling on the President who is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Nigeria to take responsibility for these massive scale of failures by the armed forces and then take concrete steps to rejig the architectural formation of Nigeria’s security services by picking new sets of competent heads to coordinate the attacks against terrorists.

“President Tinubu shouldn’t wait for the country to collapse totally before he removes his grossly incompetent National security Adviser and the service chiefs including the ruthlessly unprofessional IGP. The President has to take action now to stop Nigeria from the progressive drift to the abyss of total lawlessness, anarchy and doom”.