Group Chides Lai Mohammed Over Security Assessment

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has described as highly irresponsible, irrational and vacuous, the claim credited to the Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to the effect that the nation’s insecurity challenge is no longer severe.
The National Coordinator of the human rights body, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, who challenged the statement credited to the minister, argued that the minister must be living outside this planet to have conjured such fake news.
He urged the minister to take a trip to “Zamfara, Katsina, Borno and then back to Abuja through the Lokoja/Kwali Abuja dreaded Federal Highway after stopping over at the Okene highway near Ajaokuta in Kogi State. If the minister is able to embark on this journey which should be televised live on NTA, Trust television and AIT, then maybe his statement about improved security may be listened to by right thinking human beings that are rational.”
Continuing he said: “We find it completely ludicrous but insensitive, reckless and unacceptable that in the face of the heightened security challenges confronting Nigerians including the 28 bus passengers in Ondo that were just kidnapped into the Ondo forests by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen, the holder of the office of information minister will continue to assault our sensibilities and spread fake news.”
Also, HURIWA recalled that few days ago, elders of rural communities in Katsina State lamented that men in their villages now work as slaves on farms ‘owned’ by bandits, even as the hoodlums have developed a taste for constantly raping married women and teenage girls.
Quoting a BBC Hausa Service report, Onwubiko said the elders described the series of invasions and atrocities committed by the bandits as mind-boggling. The elders under the aegis of the Movement to Secure Katsina Citizens called on all “patriotic citizens” to contribute to the efforts to tackle the security problems in the state.