HURIWA urges Attahiru’s yet to be named successor to respect human rights

The Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria, HURIWA has charged the but to be named Chief of Military Employees to respect the rights of residents upon resumption of workplace.

PRESS INFORMANT had reported that there have been speculations on Sunday that Main Common Danjuma Ali-Keffi, Common Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division of Nigerian Military, Kaduna, might turn out to be the brand new COAS following the dying of former military chief, Lieutenant Common Ibrahim Attahiru.

Attahiru died alongside ten different navy officers in a crash involving a navy plane in Kaduna State on Friday.

The troopers have been interred on Saturday in Abuja.

HURIWA in a press release by its Nationwide Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the Nationwide Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf on Sunday, described the dying as “regrettable, avoidable and tragic

The group which condemned alleged human rights violations by troopers throughout inner military operations in some elements of the Southeast urged the incoming COAS to be conscious of the inherent human rights of residents acknowledged by regulation.

The assertion additionally urged President Muhammadu Buhari to finish “his unwarranted navy aggression in elements of South East of Nigeria with particular reference to the reported airstrikes in Imo State”.

“The unilateral and arbitrary deployment of airpower by President Muhammadu Buhari in opposition to South East of Nigeria even when the Indigenous peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and the Jap Safety Community had reportedly requested their members to disengage from their actions, constituted a criminal offense of navy aggression in opposition to harmless civilians.

“The airstrikes have created an environment of worry and a local weather of uncertainty in all the Imo State with hundreds of thousands of individuals not sure of their security any longer”, it added.

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