Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), says Nigeria’s insecurity is much more deeper than envisaged stating that the inability or unwillingness of the Federal and Kaduna Governments to rescue the 39 students of the Kaduna College of Forestry abducted two weeks after their capture signposts the imminent collapse of government.

Besides, the rights group said the kidnapping of eight members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Kaduna shows that Kaduna has become the hotbed of religious intolerance.

The rights group said it is possible that Islamic jihadist terror cells are active in Kaduna and have upped their targeted attacks at Christians and Christian communities in Southern Kaduna.

HURIWA said the Kaduna State Government encouraged Islamic extremists to keep attacking Christians of Southern Kaduna following the arbitrary decision of the powers that be to ensure that the heads of the three arms of government in Kaduna State are drawn from Moslem religion whereas other religious communities and ethnicities are marginalised and treated as second class citizens.

HURIWA which described as “deplorable and disgusting” the fact that both the Federal Government and the government of Kaduna State have not made any concrete efforts to rescue the innocent students said government has lost control and the only option left is for the entire machinery of government to resign en masse so another election is organized to bring in competent people or alternatively President Muhammadu Buhari should dismiss his National Security Adviser Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno who has been incapable of offering workable solution to the widening spectre of terrorism in the North and much of Nigeria.

“HURIWA is worried that the President Buhari and the Government of the Federation has proven incapable of protecting Nigerians but still clings on to power and daily, Nigerians are kidnapped without any form of security measures to pre-emptively stop kidnapping of citizens,” HURIWA stated.

The rights group said the President Buhari administration has proven that it has nothing to offer by way of securing the lives of Nigerians and the President himself has also refused to use the instrumentality of the law to go after terror gangs and bring them to justice.

“The government’s lacklustre approach to combating the extensive and massive insecurity threatening to tear the nation apart has been incoherent and rudderless.

“The government must overhaul its security strategy and wage a law-based approach to ensure that terrorists, kidnappers, Fulani herdsmen are made to face the full weight of the law,” the rights group said at the weekend.

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