Strongly believing that Nigeria stands to gain global mileage by the appointments of the immediate past service chiefs as Nigeria’s envoys, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked the National Assembly to confirm the appointments.

The rights group said the criticisms from some few vocal persons against them were misplaced and substantially grounded on hear-say, speculation and rumours lacking empirical evidence.

It said the National Assembly must not enlist in the assembly of the radical mobs who are opposing these well-thought out nominations by the President and should therefore demonstrate patriotism by confirming the nominations.

In the letter dated February 9, 2021, and endorsed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Ms Zainab Yusuf, the rights group said if the nominations are not confirmed, it would dampen the morale of servicemen who would now believe that there is no need for them to be absolutely loyal to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Also, President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to be a patriot and statesman by building national strategic infrastructures such as railways, bridges, roads and other assets within the Federal Republic of Nigeria with Nigerian public fund rather than fritter and callously waste public resources of the country on building railway lines to Maradi in Niger Republic.

HURIWA faulted President Buhari’s futile effort to justify this illegal expenditure of over a $1billion to build railway lines to Niger Republic when the entire South East of Nigeria and the major parts of the Niger Delta regions have no functional railways.

The rights group said the President is committing illegality by deploying borrowed funds to set up infrastructures in another country but will force Nigeria to repay the loan from China which was never spent to the benefits of Nigeria.

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