…Says Attack On Kano Catholic Church Is Primitive And Cruel
By Emmanuel Onwubiko
Following a gale of alleged detonation by female suicide bombers of
several improvise explosive devices [IEDs] concealed in their dresses
and the attendant high rate of casualties in Kano state in the last 48
hours, a call has gone to the Nigerian Government to conduct
comprehensive forensic test of the corpses of the dead bombers to
ascertain their DNAs and to clear the disturbing insinuations that
they may actually be those school girls abducted from the girls
college in Chibok, Borno state by armed Islamic terrorists.
HURIWA wants the Federal Government to seek the relevant technical
and scientific assistance from friendly nations who had volunteered
to join the Nigerian Government to achieve a successful counter
insurgency strategies so as to unravel the precise identities of these
alleged female bombers and to transparently and publicly inform
Nigerians of the outcome in no distant time.
The Nigerian Government through the armed security should also
conclusively resolve the prolonged abduction by armed insurgents of
the over two hundred and fifty school girls from Chibok in Borno state
to stop further harm from coming their way and/or stop the
insurgents from deploying them as would be suicide bombers on
In a statement to the media condemning as reprehensible and
atrocious the spate of bomb attacks in Kano state targeting innocent
Nigerians, the pro-democracy Non-Governmental Organization-
HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA [HURIWA]
through the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and
the National Media Affairs Director Miss. Zainab Yusuf said it was
imperative that experts are involved in the investigation of the origin
of these alleged female bombers to disabuse the minds of observers
who are already insinuating that those were some of the school girls
kidnapped by the armed Insurgents who may have hypnotized them
and compel them to join their ranks of suicide bombers.
HURIWA stated thus; “Now that suddenly the armed insurgents are
incessantly using alleged female bombers to unleash devastating
violence on soft targets, the Nigerian Government must probe the
origin of these female suicide bombers even as the Nigerian ministry
of information and the respective ministries of information in the
North must immediately begin sensitization campaign to dissuade
innocent girls from being lured and hypnotized into embarking on the
satanic errands of detonating high caliber explosives”.
“In the event that these female suicide bombers are identified to have
being the same kidnapped girls then the Government should
immediately deploy all resources and strategies to bring to an end
once and for all this shameful scenario since the military have
repeatedly stated that they are aware of the whereabouts of the
kidnaped Chibok girls”.
Besides, HURIWA has asked the Kano state government and the
Federal Government to improve the security of lives and property of
residents to stave off the consistent attacks targeted specifically at
worshippers and commuters especially in the Sabon Gari Area of
Kano municipality whereby Nigerians of Southern extraction live and
do their legitimate businesses.
“The attacks targeting Churches are directed at denying the citizens
the constitutional freedom of religion enshrined in chapter four of the
constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended and it is
the primary duty of government at all levels to provide fool proof
security to lives and property of the citizenry. Apart from the central
government, the state governments are under constitutional
obligation to safeguard the lives and property of their citizenry. The
state officials in Kano and other Northern states must show by words
and action that they are committed to peace and the unity of
Nigeria”.
HURIWA commended the Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff General
Kenneth Minimah for introducing a range of motivational programs for
the men and officers of the Nigerian military in the front line of the
counter insurgency war such as the payment upfront of allowances
and the enhanced medical assistance rendered to the wounded
HURIWA charged the military authority to also completely eradicate
the menace of bad eggs within the military who allegedly
compromise the counter terror war by all manner of criminal activities
including colluding actively with the armed insurgents to thwart the
operational capabilities of the military in the war fronts. According to
HURIWA, any acts of sabotage is a gross crime against the territorial
sovereignty of Nigeria and all indicted offenders must be sternly
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