Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has bemoaned the persistent failure of South-East governors to contain the gripping insecurity in the region.

The rights group stressed that the governors and other elected political leaders have failed to jointly set up a regional security outfit like the Amotekun of the South-West to combat the unprecedented insecurity in Igboland.

In a statement, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, accused the governors of living off the security votes since they sit by and do nothing, allowing for the continuous expansion of ungoverned spaces in the region, which are now territories under the control of different ragtag armed non-state actors wielding unimaginable deadly weapons and threatening the life and property of citizens of the region.

The group asserted that it bears repeating that the South-East has been uncontrollably overwhelmed by continuous and disturbing insecurity, which was made worse by the Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB) sit-at-home orders, which have crippled economic activities and normal life.

HURIWA also accused the Federal Government of compromise due to its obvious inability or unwillingness to tackle the root causes of insurgency in the region, such as the continuous and unjust detention of the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, and the systematic exclusion of Igbo from core appointments and infrastructures.

The rights group said that the accusations against the Federal Government of complicity and compromise can be justified since it is factually accurate that President Bola Tinubu has failed to concretely confront the menace of insecurity in the region.
HURIWA agreed with a recent expert opinion that the abdication of security responsibility is evident.