The
prominent civil Rights Advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF
NIGERIA (HURIWA) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of doing nothing whilst
his officials and core Northern supporters have embarked on massive anti-Igbo
sentiments and adopting discriminatory policies which may ignite genocidal
attacks on Igbo people residing outside their geopolitical region.
The
Rights group has listed the Transportation minister Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and the
police inspector general Mohammed Adamu as two key officials that have by words
and actions exposed the Igbo speaking nationality to hate crimes even as the
Rights group also listed the Arewa Consultative Council (ACC); erstwhile
chairman of Alliance for Democracy (AD) Alhaji Adamu Song and erstwhile House of
Representatives member from Kano state Alhaji Junaid Mohammed as the
reactionary elements who are instigating possible genocide against Igbo by
stoking up hate-filled messages against the over 50 million Igbo speaking
people of South East of Nigeria.
The Rights
group said the president should act fast as a statesman to stop the trend to
avoid a replication of Rwanda type genocide in Nigeria. HURIWA said the trend
has assumed a worrying dimension demanding swift institutional response from
the Federal government of Nigeria to stop any genocide from happening.
In a
statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the
National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA has also called on
the United Nations and the Nigerian national security adviser General Monguno
(rtd) to interrogate the aforementioned anti-Igbo campaigners to determine if
there is more to it than meets the eyes because according to the group, the
quick, successive and sustainable massive media attacks targeting the Igbo race
and the anti-Igbo police promotions by the Inspector General of police could be
a pointer to a bigger plots against the South East of Nigeria. "Why is Mr.
President cool and not asking the relevant question even when these hate filled
sentiments polluting the Media space emanating from members of his perceived
core Northern loyalists are potential grave threats to national security".
“There
remains high suspicions that the minister of Transportation Mr. Rotimi Amaechi
may be doing the bidding of some rabid Igbo haters because of his consistent
umbrage of the South East of Nigeria including his recent diatribe in which he
seem to be saying that south east of Nigeria has been expelled in his World of
fantasy and is no longer a part of Nigeria but in his phantom Biafra Republic.
Why should a holder of a cabinet level office be heard saying that the
transportation university is to be built in Daura because Daura is not in
Biafra, Mali or Nigeria? Mr. President should be worried about two possibilities
derivable from this diarrhea of the mouth unleashed against South East of
Nigeria by Rotimi Amaechi and these are as follows: Mr. president can tell us
if Rotimi Amaechi knows where Biafra is located
since he knows that Daura is not a part of Biafra or Mr. president may
do well to investigate his minister to ascertain if he is one of the sponsors
for the creation of Biafra which according to him is already in existence since
he exhibited a great amount of esoteric knowledge about the demographic make ups
of his BIAFRA.
Secondly,
Mr. president should find out if Rotimi Amaechi’s outburst is meant to provoke
a Rwanda type genocide against millions of Igbo who live and do their
legitimate business in the North of Nigeria living side by side in peace with
their Northern hosts and brethren and the Igbo nationality who in the last two
decades have suffered all kinds of violence and killings by some religious
fanatics at any slightest provocation including the slaughter of the 74 year
old woman trader in Kano state some few years back in which the Kano state
governor set the killers free.”
“Mr.
President should also be worried that officials of Arewa ethnic nationality
have begun systematic anti-Igbo campaigns with the objective of creating a
general atmosphere of hatred towards the Igbo race in the guise of stopping
them from aspiring to be elected president of Nigeria in 2023. These series of
well-orchestrated and formidably funded media campaigns by the body and some
key Northern individuals if not moderated can instigate genocide against Igbo.”
“Again,
in the midst of all the media attacks, the Inspector General of police Mohammed
Adamu then took the fight against the South East of Nigeria or Ndigbo to a
strange dimension by denying the South East of Nigeria of equity and equality
in the upgrading of police commissioners in what appears to be a continuation
of the divergent levels of targeted anti-Igbo sentiments that are brewing in
the North.”
“The
president must note that the skewed
promotions by the IGP against the Igbo offends the Federal character principle
of the constitution in section 14(3) and is discriminatory which is against
section 42 of the Nigerian constitution as follows:”
Section
14(3) states: “The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its
agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner
as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national
unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall
be no predominance of persons from a few State or from a few ethnic or other
sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies”.
Section
42 states: “(1) A citizen of Nigeria of a particular community, ethnic group,
place of origin, sex, religion or political opinion shall not, by reason only
that he is such a person:- (a) be subjected either expressly by, or in the
practical application of, any law in force in Nigeria or any executive or
administrative action of the government, to disabilities or restrictions to
which citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of
origin, sex, religions or political opinions are not made subject; or (b) be
accorded either expressly by, or in the practical application of, any law in
force in Nigeria or any such executive or administrative action, any privilege
or advantage that is not accorded to citizens of Nigeria of other communities,
ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions. (2) No
citizen of Nigeria shall be subjected to any disability or deprivation merely
by reason of the circumstances of his birth. (3) Nothing in subsection (1) of
this section shall invalidate any law by reason only that the law imposes
restrictions with respect to the appointment of any person to any office under
the State or as a member of the armed forces of the Federation or member of the
Nigeria Police Forces or to an office in the service of a body, corporate
established directly by any law in force in Nigeria.”
HURIWA
said the President as the Commander-in-chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
should realize that the primary duty of government is to protect lives and
property of the citizenry and therefore the unambiguous gathering political
storm against the Igbo speaking people by government officials and self-acclaimed
supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari should be stopped now to avoid
monumental violence been unleashed on the people of South East of Nigeria
especially those who live in the North of Nigeria.
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