HURIWA laments murder of monarch, Nigerian in South Africa

Urges measures against armed Fulani herdsmen

THE Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has lamented the kidnap and assassination of the traditional ruler of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Council of Delta State, Akaeze Edward Ofulue III, allegedly by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen.

HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, described the act as one heinous crime too many by rampaging terrorists masquerading as Fulani herdsmen who have unleashed a regime of violent abductions and mass killings of persons from across Nigeria.

Enjoining President Muhammadu Buhari to treat these premeditated killings as acts of terrorism, the group claimed that President Buhari is looking the other way whilst Fulani herdsmen unleash violence on other Nigerians.

The rights group warned that the President’s action may be a breach of the constitution if he fails to take concrete measures to tackle this menace, which it said is threatening to create animosity between other ethnic groups against Fulani.

HURIWA also condemned the gruesome killing by South Africans of a Nigerian alleged to be a drug trafficker, adding that the act is condemnable even as it asked President Buhari to take strong diplomatic measures to bring to a stop the incessant assassination and mob killings of Nigerians resident in the country by largely black South Africans.

HURIWA expressed angst that Nigeria is losing respectability in the international community because of the lack of actions by the Nigerian government to protect Nigerian citizens worldwide from unwarranted xenophobic and racist attacks by their hostile hosts.

HURIWA which condemned the ruthless and dastardly criminal acts of kidnapping and killing of the prominent Delta Monarch by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen expressed disappointment that President Buhari has yet to view the nationwide menace of armed Fulani herdsmen’s terror attacks across various communities.