Insecurity: HURIWA seeks death penalty, border fencing, self-defence rights
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has raised a recent apprehension over the rising wave of kidnappings, terrorism, and alleged human organ harvesting in Nigeria.
The group known as for sweeping reforms in national safety and the enactment of enforceable moral frameworks to confront the crisis. In a statement the day previous in Abuja, HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, condemned present attacks in Niger and Kwara states, the build suspected bandits abducted no longer no longer up to 32 contributors, destroyed property, and displaced residents.
The group described these incidents as section of a broader pattern of insecurity that has gripped masses of formulation of the country.HURIWA warned that except the Federal Executive adopts company insurance policies and discards the present put together of rehabilitating “repentant terrorists,” Nigeria risks descending into fleshy-blown anarchy. The group said the protection handiest recycles terrorists and bolsters present fright cells.
“We're jumpy by the persevered mass abductions in Niger, Kwara, Taraba, and other states. These are no longer isolated events; they mirror an entrenched and perilous network of terrorism, typically linked to organ harvesting. Human lives are being commodified while the authorities stalls on decisive motion,” said Onwubiko.
The group cited the present invasion of Gulbinboka, Kakihun, and Kumbashi in Mariga Local Council of Niger Verbalize, the build armed bandits on motorcycles abducted scores, razed a secondary college, and torched a safety vehicle.
“In Kwara, two teenage ladies had been kidnapped within the Babanla community, while the wife of a dilapidated ruler narrowly escaped abduction. These events are symptoms of a failing command,” HURIWA acknowledged, reiterating its name for the abolition of amnesty programmes for terrorists, which it says embolden criminal activity and weaken justice.
The organisation advocated for a national moral framework that imposes the loss of life penalty for terrorism and kidnapping. It entreated command governors to signal execution warrants for convicted offenders and rapid public executions in affected communities to discourage future crimes and restore public self assurance.
HURIWA also proposed the introduction of a like a flash-tracked judicial draw for handling terrorism and kidnapping conditions, lamenting that delays within the present justice direction of allow suspects to evade punishment or return to crime.
Given the inadequacies of present safety businesses, the group known as for the liberalisation of firearm ownership. It careworn that responsible electorate—these with sound psychological health, no criminal checklist, and licensed coaching—have to calm be allowed to dangle firearms to protect themselves and their communities.
Reviving its 2014 name, HURIWA advocated the advance of bodily border fences to dam the influx of international fighters and arms. It commended the Chief of Defence Workers for no longer too lengthy ago backing the conclusion, noting that many border communities, specifically in Taraba, live inclined to external attacks.
The group extra demanded the criminalisation of ransom funds, specifically these facilitated by authorities agents, arguing that such transactions have interaction the kidnapping economic system.
It is some distance also called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Department of Verbalize Products and services (DSS) to dismantle financial networks supporting terrorism and alleged organ trafficking.
“The financial pipelines sustaining these criminal enterprises must be severed. Intelligence businesses have to prioritise the disruption of fright financing and organ trade syndicates over political surveillance,” the group asserted.
HURIWA sympathised with the victims of the present attacks and entreated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to prove the political will to adopt mettlesome safety measures that prioritise the safety of electorate. It cautioned against insurance policies that reward impunity and undermine national safety.
