Stop killing security operatives – HURIWA tells youths in South-East
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has advised the Southeastern youths to end the war against security operatives in the region.
DAILY POST reports that scores of security operatives in the region have been killed recently following the face-off between the operatives and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Several security formations and other government properties, including some offices belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and court buildings have been destroyed.
However, in a statement on Sunday, HURIWA urged the assailants to embrace peace stressing that “only an insane child will put his father’s house on fire over certain grievances caused by external forces who stay far away from his father’s house”.
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Adelani Adepegba, Solomon Odeniyi, Kayode Oyero and Godwin Isenyo
Published 28 May 2021
Adelani Adepegba, Solomon Odeniyi, Kayode Oyero and Godwin Isenyo
Published 28 May 2021
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff, one week after the demise of the former COAS, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 others in a plane crash in Kaduna.
Until his appointment, Yahaya was the Theatre Commander, Operation Hadin Kai, responsible for counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in the North-East.
Yahaya’s emergence may however spell the end of the careers of about 25 major generals who were of the Regular Course 35 and Regular Course 36.
By Dirisu Yakubu
A non-for-profit organization and ace rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said it is not surprised that President Muhammadu Buhari settled for another northerner, Maj. Gen. Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff, following last week’s death in a plane crash of the former army chief, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru.
The group stated that the President has since 2015 “maintained the illegal and unconstitutional practice of posting only Northern Hausa/Fulani Muslims to head the entire internal security architectures such as Nigerian Customs Service, Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigerian Police Force, Department of State Services, National Intelligence Agency and Nigerian Army which is the largest set of armed segment of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”