Mob killings: Policing has collapsed, says HURIWA
06 June 2022 |
2:46 am
Civil rights group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, said policing has collapsed in Nigeria because the response time to violent incidents by Nigeria
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Civil rights group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, said policing has collapsed in Nigeria because the response time to violent incidents by Nigeria Police Force is indeterminate due to a lack of professionalism and leadership.
HURIWA’s assertion followed the primitive and gruesome incident in which a 30-year-old member of a local vigilante group, Ahmad Usman, was killed in Lugbe area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, for alleged blasphemy.
The National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, yesterday, said the fact that this incident at the Federal Housing Estates in Lugbe, Abuja is the second where extremists have killed persons framed up for blasphemy or alleged to have committed blasphemy in the Nation’s Federal Capital, shows that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is tolerant of Islamic extremism.
The group also accused the administration of lacking the wherewithal and political will to act decisively to arrest those who have killed many Nigerians on similar trumped-up allegations.
It said: “ The Federal government under the current dispensation has shown a shocking habit of cohabitation with mass killers, terrorists and kidnappers because the government has failed to carry out her constitutionally guaranteed fundamental obligations of protecting life and property of citizens and also refused to activate judicial mechanisms to bring killers who are mostly non-state actors to justice.
HURIWA recalled that in the first of the two killings in Abuja, Mrs. Eunice Elisha, a Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor, was hacked to death at the Gbazango area of Kubwa, Abuja, by suspected fanatics, while conducting an early morning preaching.
It stated that the wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Dolapo, visited Mrs. Elisha’s traumatised family, but that was all that government did unofficially and officially not one of the suspects, who participated in the primitive execution in Kubwa was ever convicted and the matter was swept under the carpet by President Muhammadu Buhari just like many other cases in Gombe, Bauchi, Sokoto, Kano States.
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