For allegedly describing the armed herdsmen terrorising parts of the North as “nationalists that believed in the nation’s sovereignty” during a live programme, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on security agencies to arrest, prosecute and jail the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.
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In a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, the rights group said the “criminal act of actively soliciting support for terrorists offends the extant anti-terror law of Nigeria, which the Information Minister has breached with reckless abandon.”
HURIWA expressed consternation that from empirical evidence, “it may take international pressure to dissuade the central government from going ahead with its entrenched active support for Fulani terrorists going by public utterances of key officials of the current administration in Abuja, which appear apparently to be heavily sympathetic to Islamist and Fulani terrorists.”
THE GUARDIAN
