Insists on sacking Pantami over link with Al-Queada, Taliban
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has warned that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration may be designated a sympathiser of Al-Queada and Taliban should he refuse to dismiss his Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami.
“It is in the self-enlightened interest of the administration of President Buhari to clear its image of the suspicions that it is a sympathiser of international terrorism by sacking Pantami who had admitted espousing the teachings of Al- Queada and Taliban previously,” HURIWA said in a statement yesterday.
In the statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA insisted that President Buhari should dismiss Pantami due to his affinity and endorsement of global Jihadist movement.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop marginalizing security officers from the Southeast in the hierarchy of the state commands in the region.
HURIWA called for the immediate reorganization of the hierarchy of State Commands of security forces in the South East to allow indigenes head them.
The frontline advocacy group lamented the deliberate scheming out of officers from the South East heading the states commands of all of the segments of the security forces.
HURIWA stated this in statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf.
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said the uncertainty in the pump price of petrol is an indication that “President Muhammadu Buhari has lost control.”
HURIWA made the remark while condemning the “ever pervasive climate of apprehension, anxiety and uncertainty” on petrol pump price.
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, had on Thursday fixed the pump price of fuel at N212.61 per litre for the month of March.
But, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation had countered the PPPRA, stressing that there was no increase in depot price of Premium Motor Spirit in March.
However, the rights group warned that the uncertainty in fuel price was an invitation to anarchy that could trigger a massive scale of poverty, economic downturn and the oppression of Nigeria’s downtrodden.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called for the arrest and prosecution of controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, for allegedly aiding and abetting terrorism in Nigeria.
HURIWA made the remark while warning the federal government against open, biased and selective justice manifested in the persistent refusal and failure of Buhari and his federal government to arrest and prosecute Gumi for aiding and abetting terrorism in Nigeria.
The rights group said Buhari has not done much to ensure that the terror gangsters that kidnapped school children in Zamfara, Katsina and Niger States are arrested.
HURIWA said the measures against terrorists in the North West as announced by the National Security Adviser Major General Monguno (rtd) on behalf of Buhari is “cosmetic and deceptive and would do no harm to the armed terrorists who are tolerated by the federal government to roam about in the forests armed to their teeth.”