Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned the incessant attacks by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen targeting largely Christian communities in Southern Kaduna while calling on the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, whose primary duty is to prevent these sorts of wanton killings by armed Fulani herdsmen to resign forthwith or be sacked.

The rights group called on the Federal and Kaduna State governments to arrest and prosecute and punishes the killer herdsmen launching terrorist attacks on communities in Southern Kaduna and other part of the country.

In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, the group condemned the latest attack which took place in the farming community of Gonar Rogo in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state where 17 persons were hacked to death by the marauding herdsmen saying that most of the victims of the terror attack which occurred at the early hours of Tuesday were women and children.

HURIWA said it is disturbed because there was a military check point not far away from the attacked community yet the killer herdsmen had enough time to carry out their dastardly act with no resistance from the security. It called on the Federal and Kaduna state governments to stop these wanton killings by the herdsmen or risk having the country destroyed by their activities.

The lackadaisical attitude and lukewarm attitude with which the government handles the incessant killings carried out by terrorist herdsmen, HURIWA said, has further emboldened the killers to continue their trade of spilling blood across the country, adding that “Gonar Rogo attack is one of many that has befallen Southern Kaduna in recent times where dozens of persons have been killed with no one being prosecuted for such crimes against humanity.”

It also called on the government at both state and federal levels to as a matter of urgency send relief materials to the survivors of the latest terror attack in Gonar Rogo and also beef up security in the local government to forestall future attacks.

The group is worried that if nothing is done to stop these unprovoked attacks, the local government, Kaduna state and the country at large may be thrown into a state of anarchy as the victims may be left with no option than to take laws into their hands

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