Vexed by what it described as “the unwillingness or the incapacity of the Service Chiefs including the National Security Adviser to roll out workable strategies to bring to the barest minimum, the deadly attacks on Nigerians by terrorists, bandits armed herdsmen and kidnappers, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Monday asked President Bola Tinubu “to stay in Nigeria and lead the process of national reconciliation, nation building and strengthen peace building processes in the country”.

HURIWA also noted that the growing food insecurity “demands that the leader of a troubled nation should stay more at home and battle the hydraheaded monsters of socio-economic and security nightmares.”

The group said in a statement signed by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko: “The fact, in the thinking of HURIWA, is that the primary duty of government as stipulated by the constitution in section 14 (2) (b) of the Nigerian grund norm. Also the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu government met a Country thoroughly troubled by terrorist and all kinds of freelance armed non-state actors due to the apparent failure by his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari to combat these forces of destruction and divisiveness.

“It is therefore expected that President Tinubu should impose a voluntary ban on his foreign trips so he can lead from the front, the war on terror”.

HURIWA regretted that “terrorists have continued to unleash devastating violence on Nigerians without any fruitful, meaningful, and constructive counter-terror measures effective enough to deter the mass killers who have continued their business-as-usual killing sprees since the current administration came on board even as the suspected terror bandits have only just launched vicious attack on Kulben community in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing over 10 villagers.”

The rights group regretted that “whereas the service chiefs including the Inspector General of Police and the National Security Adviser are all over the country attending talk shops and meaningless seminars, dare-devil terror group reportedly raided the Plateau community on Sunday night. These terrorist bandits have also killed a Major Seminarian of the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan in Southern Kaduna whilst they burnt down Church facilities.

“It is unimaginable that whereas several houses belonging to villagers were razed by the terrorists before eloping from the community, those charged with keeping the Country safe have nothing concrete to demonstrate their will power to combat these growing attacks and then the Commander-in-Chief of the non performing armed forces of Nigeria is all over the world attending international seminars that bear no immediate economic and safety benefits for millions of Nigerians under threats of terrorism.”

The rights group offered some insights on why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and governors of the 36 states should be banned from foreign trips for another six months, asserted that the duty to begin and complete the process of national reconciliation is inevitable and burdensome.

HURIWA therefore proposes an immediate self-imposed ban on globetrotting by President Tinubu and for his administration to give the Service Chiefs and the NSA a short deadline of three months to combat and pragmatically defeat terrorists and armed bandits terrorising Nigerians, “or be dismissed and replaced by Nigerians with best ideas to solve the security challenges that are growing in leaps and bounds.”

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