Insecurity: Blame not service chiefs for your woes, HURIWA tells Northern Elders

Insecurity: Blame not service Chiefs for your woes..HURIWA Tells  Northern Elders

….recommends community based enlightenment

By Idu Jude

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA  has accused Northern elders and leaders of insensitivity and docility in the fight against Boko Haram rather than their fixation on the nation’s security architecture, particularly the service chiefs.

In a statement by its Executive Director, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA noted that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has done quite well considering the resources available to him in the difficult task of running Boko Haram, bandits, kidnappers and all forms of criminal elements, out of town.

The statement read: “We hereby call on Northern leaders and elders to stop the well oiled calculated and orchestrated campaign of calumny and desists from the beer parlour criticisms of the war on terror and return to their communities to show leadership by example to their wards and children.”

According to HURIWA, “These members of the terror network seeking the destruction of modern day constitutional democracy in Nigeria are children and wards of these community elders who are now transferring their misdirected angst at the service chiefs. What the Northern elders need to do with due respect, is to articulate position paper on practical measures to be adopted by them to dissuade and discourage their kith  and kin from enlisting into the terror groups that are waging the war of attrition  against the Nigerian state and the people of Nigeria”.