The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has
asked the security services in the country to “arrest, prosecute and jail” the
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed for allegedly defending armed
Fulani herdsmen.
The rights group alleged that the Minister had, during a
broadcast, referred to armed Fulani herdsmen as ‘nationalists’ who believe in
the sovereignty of Nigeria.
“The criminal act of actively soliciting support for
terrorists offends the extant anti-terror law of Nigeria which the information
minister has breached with reckless abandon.
“From empirical evidence, it may take international pressure
to dissuade the central government from going ahead with its entrenched active
support for Fulani terrorists going by public utterances of key officials of
the current administration in Abuja which appears to be heavily sympathetic to
Islamist and Fulani terrorists,” HURIWA said in a statement on Tuesday.
Angered by the recent massacre of over 43 villagers in
Sokoto State by armed men suspected to be herders, HURIWA slammed Lai Mohammed
over the alleged comments.
The rights group said, “Lai Mohammed’s defence of armed
Fulani attackers confirmed that there is an official agenda in Aso-Rock to
pamper, defend, protect, promote and sponsor the increasingly expansive
terrorist attacks all across the Country targeted largely at Christians or
non-Fulani such as Hausa farmers in the North West”.
Following the massacre which occurred on Sunday when the
assailants invaded the Goronyo Market in Sokoto State, HURIWA said, “It will be
difficult to convince any right-thinking and objective Nigerian Worldwide that
the current central government is actually carrying out any concrete and
factual, verifiable and determined, precise and transparent attacks targeting
Fulani terrorists.
“The terror attacks in Sokoto by the Fulani terrorists have
shown that maybe Nigerians are being deceived by the military who keep dishing
out tissues of Media propaganda claiming to have decimated certain numbers of
Fulani terrorists around the North West and the North Central states.
“These may just be audio and deceptive military phantom
attacks. Now the national interview by Lai Mohammed has further confirmed the
suspicion by millions of Nigerians that the Federal Government harbours
terrorist sympathisers including one that is a minister who was caught on tape
supporting Al-Quaeda and the murderous Taliban terrorists”.
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