The Human Rights Writers Association of
Nigeria, HURIWA, on Sunday called on the Nigerian government to seek United
Nations and African Union Commission’s assistance to check the Boko Haram
insurgency.
The association said the Nigerian government
must “immediately” call for an intervention from the UN Security Council and
the African Union Commission to end the activities of the insurgents.
In a statement by its National Coordinator,
Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, the
organization said all necessary measures must be adopted to stop the killings
in Nigeria’s North-Eastern region.
The statement said further delay in stopping
the terrorist attacks could lead to control of a significant part of the
country by the group.
The Boko Haram has in the past months
captured many towns in the North Eastern Nigeria, particularly in Adamawa,
Borno, and Yobe. Its terrorist activities have also caused the death of over
13,000 people since 2009.
HURIWA said Nigeria cannot continue to
believe it can engage the terrorists “without a meaningful and concrete
military partnership with genuinely friendly nations around the World.”
Condemning the killings, the association said
the military needs all the help it can get from the UN and the AU.
“Apart from the fact that nearly three
million people may be rendered internally displaced many more innocent
Nigerians would also be killed if the Nigerian military is not supported now to
wage an all-out war to defeat these terrorists once and for all,” the group
said.
The association also called for comprehensive
support for the Nigerian military and the civilian vigilante groups in the
North East to ensure more cities and communities are not annexed by the armed
Islamists.
“The Nigerian State must transparently reach
out to all our friendly nations all around the World for concrete military
support and must not continue to delude ourselves that we can go it alone since
contemporary history of war on terror globally has revealed that no single
nation has ever successfully battled the emerging scourge of Islamic extremism
and terrorism,” it said.
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