A civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria to expose financiers of insurgency instead of going after naira abusers at the burial of the mother of Cubana Group Chairman, Obi Iyiegbu a.k.a Obi Cubana.
National Coordinator of the group, Emmanuek Onwubiko made the call in a statement issued on Monday.
Some Nigerians had expressed concern over the abuse of naira at the party, that held at Oba, Anambra state, which had celebrities, politicians and business moguls in attendance.
However, HURIWA in the statement said that the naira rain at the party should not become a talking point.
The statement read “The fact that friends and well-wishers who attended the event decided to show appreciation to Mr Obi Cubana, we in the Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria, think it should not become the talking point.
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“The Central Bank of Nigeria under the current dispensation should rather be tasked by the media to confront the much more disturbing issue of how terrorism is funded and how armed kidnappers made up of Fulani militia in the North carry out their terrorism-related activities such as accepting huge sums of ransoms from victims of kidnappings but yet neither the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission nor the CBN have successfully exposed these illicit commercial transactions.
“EFCC and CBN and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit should tell Nigerians why they have failed spectacularly to trace the financing of terrorism and kidnapping kingpins.”
