HURIWA Urges FG Reveal Those Financing Terrorism In The Country

HURIWA Urges FG Reveal Those Financing Terrorism In The Country

An advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on the Federal Government to reveal those financing terrorism in the country.

The group specifically called on the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, to make full disclosures to Nigerians regarding the identities and particulars of the financiers of terrorism in the country.

HURIWA said the failure of the current government to disclose the “identities of the financiers of the terrorists whose activities have led to the killings of over 50,000 citizens over the past decade, amounted to cover-up on the part of the current administration going by the fact that investigation have gone on for far too long which led to the identification of the suspected financiers of terrorism in Nigeria.”

The Rights group stated that advanced democracies automatically “publish and authorise the release of information on the particulars of offences and the identities of financiers of terrorism as soon as this information is generated and therefore wonders whether Nigeria is an island.”

HURIWA expressed “consternation that terrorists around the borders of Nigeria and Niger, have escalated attacks targeting both soft targets and military targets” just as the Rights group cited the report that at the weekend, suspected terrorists attacked Usmanu Danfodiyo University Community Sokoto, shot and killed one person, leaving others in critical condition.

Reports over the weekend said suspected gunmen who were in numbers stormed Dundayen Bakin Gulbi village 600 metres away from the University main campus shooting sporadically which made communities within and outside institutions to scamper for their precious lives.

HURIWA also said the suspected Boko Haram insurgents attack on the convoy of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni along Maiduguri-Damaturu Road over the weekend, killing two policemen and injuring two others called for immediate action and new approach.

Reports over the weekend said the convoy came under fire after the governor attended the 24th convocation of the University of Maiduguri, Borno State.

HURIWA said the “upsurge in attacks by terrorists is a demonstration of what, we in our organisation, have been saying to the security heads that they need to continuously work as one for the sake of defending the territorial integrity of the country and stop these incessant threats against our national security.”