Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused military and police chiefs of subterranean plots to sweep the deadliest terror attacks in Nigeria for 2023 under the carpet.
The Christmas Eve coordinated attacks in 23 Plateau communities, in which over 200 natives, mainly Christians, were murdered and their residences razed.
HURIWA said the public statements and actions of virtually all the service chiefs, including the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and the National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, show a notorious proclivity to sweep the crime against humanity under the carpet.
National Coordinator of the rights group, Emmanuel Onwubiko, yesterday, restated his conviction that the only reason terrorists continued to attack soft targets and get away with their crimes against humanity was because there had been no consequences for offenders of the laws.
The group charged President Bola Tinubu to mandate his service chiefs to set up a high-powered body of intelligence officers, investigators and forensic criminologists within and outside the security agencies, to undertake the urgent task of trailing, arresting, prosecuting and legally obtaining closures and inevitable justice for the victims of one of the most gruesome criminal acts and carefully choreographed pogroms in Plateau.
However, HURIWA supported Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, who has professed in the media that the incessant attacks on the state were acts of terrorism, claiming that security agents know the masterminds.
It recalled that the governor had stated on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today: “What I can tell you is the killings in Plateau and the attacks in recent times are pure acts of terrorism.”
According to the governor, the earlier Nigeria deals with the attacks, the better, as he alleged that those sponsoring terrorism were known
