HURIWA CONDEMNS BOKO HARAM ATTACK, RELEASES OF DETAINED TERRORISTS

*HURIWA CONDEMNS MUBI BOKO HARAM ATTACK;

* CONDEMNS RELEASES OF DETAINED BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS:

A pro-Democracy and Non-Governmental organisation- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned as atrocious, unconscionable, despicable and outrageous, the early morning bombing campaign at a Mosque in the important trading town of Mubi in Adamawa state, North East of Nigeria in which over 50 innocent lives were wasted by armed Islamists-Boko Haram terrorists.

HURIWA blamed the current administration for unnecessarily using the military to carry out politically motivated operations such as opetation python dance; crocodile smiles and monitoring of Anambra state governorship election in the South of Nigeria when the federal government is expected to strategically deploy soldiers to confront boko haram terrorists who are the number 3 most dreaded terror network in the World currently.

HURIWA has also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to prioritize the war on terror and focus exclusively on strategically arming and motivating the Nigerian troops to expand the frontiers of counter terror combats so as to clinically finish off the bulk of armed Islamic extremists of boko haram terrorists that has started to recruit more attackers even as the Rights group charged the Fedetal Government to forensically prosecute all the detained boko haram terrorists instead of the ongoing trial in camera in which hundreds of suspected armed terrorists are released back into the society in the guise of deradicalisation and reintegration.

HURIWA blamed the current resurgence of armed boko Haram terror attacks through coordinated suicide bombing squads on the lack of political will on the part of the Federal Government through the Federal ministry of Justice and the office of the Federal Attorney General of the Federation to effectively and efficiently prosecute the hundreds of detained boko haram terrorists who have spent time in different military detention facilities and are gradually being freed by the political authority in Abuja in a misplaced programme of deradicalisation instead of ensuring that all those boko haram terrorists whose hands are stained with the blood of the innocent are professionally prosecuted in the competent courts of law and punished severely for their atrocious crimes against humanity and for their blood cuddling terror campaigns over the last few years that have resulted in the massacre of over 30,000 Nigerians.

HURIWA in the media statement endorsed jointly by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss ZainabYusuf condemned the gruesome murder of innocent Moslem worshippers by the depraved bunch of Islamic fundamentalists under the banner of armed boko Haram terrorists just as the Rights group challenged the Nigerian government to increase the quality of weapons being distributed to the fighting forces of the Nigerian Security services and to upgrade the levels of intelligence gathering capacity of the Nigerian Security services to be able to preempt and prevent planned bombing attacks by armed boko haram terrorists.

HURIWA also warned against corruption in the management of the fund meant for counter terror war.

 "The dimension of high casualties of civilian targets in the Mubi Mosque attack and the many other attacks in the North East of Nigeria by armed boko haram terrorists have assumed dangerous scales demanding clinical military operations to decimate, degrade and incapacitate the armed boko Haram terrorists who are gaining more grounds to launch deadly attacks on soft targets resulting in mass casualties.

"The Nigerian military must be allowed to concentrate on this counter terror combats instead of deploying the military to carry out ordinary routine policing jobs such as election security that at best amounted to the misplacement of priority especially at a time that the territorial integrity of Nigeria is facing grave threats from boko haram terrorists".