The Human Right Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has blamed the two months ultimatum issued to bandits by President Muhammadu Buhari for the recent spike in kidnapping and other security crisis in the North West.
The latest kidnapping case to be reported is the unsuccessful attack on Government Science Secondary School, Ikara in Kaduna State after gunmen invaded the school in the early hours of Sunday but their plot to abduct over 300 students was foiled by the military. This adds to the several other cases that have been witnessed in Zamfara and Niger states.
The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Mattawalle, had recently disclosed that the President, while deploying 6,000 soldiers to the State to combat the incessant security crisis in the state, gave bandits two months to repent.
Following several abductions and killings in the region since the deadline was issued, HURIWA, in a statement on Sunday, blamed the President for giving the ultimatum.
The statement reads in part, “President Muhammadu Buhari promised Nigerians that the Jangebe Zamfara school kidnapping will be the last but sadly because he lacks the political will to deal with terrorists, these same terrorists have once more struck at the heart of Kaduna and taken away dozens of female students and till now President Muhammadu Buhari is busy dishing out incoherent orders to his military forces.
“On one hand the President threatens to deal with the terrorists but on the other hand, he gave them two months to decide whether to stop KIDNAPPING.
“Nigerians should know by now that this government lacks the capacity to protect it and the best bet is for the masses to organise demonstrations to call on the United States of America and the United Nations to come into Nigeria and rescue the citizens before we are all kidnapped”.
