A civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has expressed shock that the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian armed forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, has publicly accepted that he is overwhelmed by the deluge of security nightmares in Nigeria currently.

HURIWA reminded the President that his primary duty, which is the essence of governance in the modern world in line with the constitutional provisions, is to protect, provide and invest in the human development of the citizens, but if he is overwhelmed by the deluge of security threats in the country he has only one option, to resign forthwith.

In a media statement in reaction to the public affirmation by President Buhari that he is surprised by the rates of insecurity in Nigeria, the rights group asked the President to resign forthwith if he has no practical solution to the widening spectre of insecurity and terrorists’ attacks because public wailing is not why he was elected.

The group lamented that for five years now, the President has continued to assure Nigerians that his administration will deal ruthlessly with terrorists and armed bandits but he has failed to do so just as his administration has never prosecuted even a single mass murderer in what is now been regarded as partiality due to the fact that majority of the mass murderers arrested and paraded for these gruesome killings all across Nigeria are Fulani who share same cultural and religious affiliations with him.

HURIWA lamented that almost all the heads of strategic national/internal security platforms such as Nigerian Customs; Nigerian Immigration Services; the Nigerian Police; the secret police; the external spying agency and top commanding officers within the military.

The rights group told President Buhari emphatically to adhere by the constitution and rejig the heads of these internal security institutions because doing so would infuse a sense of patriotism, nationalism and competency to confront these armed hoodlums headlong and restore national security.

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