RIGHTS GROUP DECRY THE MILITARY INVASION OF SOUTH EASTERN COMMUNITIES
By
Agbetu Becky
A rights group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA yesterday decried the invasion by the military of Southeast communities with its many casualties. HURIWA has stressed that the invasion was not working.
HURIWA called on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, to come about with fresh strategies to combat crimes in the Southeast and other geopolitical zones.
The group condemned
the sporadic attacks by terrorists targeting strategic national security assets
and offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in the
Southeast.
HURIWA’s National Coordinator Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement issued in Abuja, said the change of strategies by the military was important, as non-indigenous commanders to the Southeast were strange to the zone.
HURIWA said President
Muhammadu Buhari should allow the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) leader,
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to speak to Igbo people to affirm or deny the report by his
lawyers that he had ordered an end to the sit-at-home order, which Mr. Simon
Ekpa, an alleged follower of the detained leader, disputed and ordered for
forceful implementation of the so-called sit -at - home order.

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