FG Should Stop Shielding Killer Herdsmen, HURIWA Says

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FG Should Stop Shielding Killer Herdsmen, HURIWA Says

A pro-democracy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has ‎challenged the federal government to stop shielding the rampaging Fulani herdsmen who have refused to desist from the wanton killings of innocent Nigerians.



The National Coordinator of the group, Emmanuel‎ Onwubiko, who made this known in a statement today in Abuja also accused the federal government of placing ethnic politics above national security interest in the cases of mass killings by armed Fulani herdsmen.



According to him, "There is a well-funded campaign by Northern governors and top federal government officials to seek actively to change the narratives of the real identities of the killer Fulani herdsmen who wreaking havoc across Nigeria."

The rights group wondered why the Minister of State for Agriculture, Mr. Heineken Lokpobiri, appeared before a Senate Committee last Monday and made sensationally untrue and unverifiable claims that the mass killers who are armed Fulani herdsmen are foreigners.



‎Onwnbiko noted that: "The plot, if allowed to continue, is capable of creating the impression that there's grand cover up on the part of the federal government.

“It was an act of sabotage on the part of top political office holders such as Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Solomon Arase, and Lokpobiri to affirm that the Fulani herdsmen killers were foreigners even when there are overwhelming evidence based on documented accounts by leaders of the Fulani herdsmen which points to the fact that indeed some of those killings were premeditated acts of revenge for alleged cattle rustlings."

HURIWA also accused the top government officials who are shifting blame to foreigners for the incessant killings of playing to the gallery to please their pay masters who are mostly Fulani by ethnic origin.

 The group stressed that this attempt to change the narrative to suite the whims and caprices of the powers -that -be amounted to the breach of constitutional oath.


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