Following the spate of insecurity in the country, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said President Muhammadu Buhari should either resign or be impeached by the National Assembly.
HURIWA said Buhari has shown that he lacked the capacity to protect Nigerians.
The rights group made the remark while throwing its weight behind Daily Trust Newspaper’s opinion that life in Nigeria has lost meaning under the Buhari administration.
In a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA lamented that the leadership of the National Assembly is so incompetent and compromised that it may take extraordinary measures to get them to follow the constitution and impeach Buhari.
HURIWA said: “It is unfortunate that the spokesman of President Buhari attempted to divert the attention of Nigerians to the loaded editorial opinion of the well respected Northern based Newspaper Daily Trust on the collapsing state of security by talking about such unrelated issues as COVID-19 and chased shadows by asserting without empirical evidence that insecurity is global.
“It is shocking that President Buhari does not know that the unprecedented violence unleashed on Nigerians are so unique that not even in war-ravaged Yemen or Afghanistan do you see armed Non State actors kidnapping citizens and setting travellers on fire”.
HURIWA wonders why Buhari through his spokesman, Garba Shehu who suffers from “Igbophobia,” took the opportunity of responding to the cases of terror attacks in the North as pointed out by the Northern-oriented Daily Trust to introduce the angle of the military action in the South East.
The group reminded Shehu and other Igbo “haters hibernating” in this government that to a large extent, “what Buhari calls military actions in the Southeast of Nigeria, constituted crimes against humanity because of the wanton killings by Soldiers/Police of unarmed Igbo youths under the guise of chasing after the Eastern Security Network.”
The group noted that the atrocities in the South East are still being committed by the security agencies and are already being compiled by Amnesty International as war crimes.
“But instead of Garba Shehu is telling Nigerians why the government has allowed Northern terrorists to destroy all of North West as observed by Daily Trust, Garba Shehu disingenuously went on a voyage of discovery by talking about unrelated issues.”
