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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has urged the National Assembly to confirm the nomination of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd) and some other Service Chiefs as non-career ambassadors.
HURIWA said the National Assembly can endorse the appointments of the ex-Service Chiefs because there is no extant law stopping the immediate past security chiefs from being posted out as envoys after their disengagement.
In a letter dated February 9, 2021, and signed by HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, the rights group said there was no justification for the criticisms of their selection by President Buhari.
A resident of Ughelli, Mr. Saturday Onajite has narrated how bullets came to lodge at the back of his head after an attack by armed robbers in Delta State.
Onajite, a commercial motorcycle operator, said the robbers shot at him, disarmed him and went away with his motorcycle during an operation at Oberia street, Ughelli Community.
The forty-nine-year-old man said the incident occurred at about 8am on Friday, February 5.
Giving details of his ordeal to newsmen in Ughelli, the motorcyclist said he picked two passengers at the market road and conveyed them to Oberia street.
“They said I should go to the corner and I did. The next thing I heard was a gunshot. They stole my bike and money. I could not know myself again because I was bleeding on the ground until people came to rush me to the hospital.”