ABUJA, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Human Rights Writers’ Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has described as unsubstantiated and baseless the sweeping human rights indictments of the Nigerian military by the United States of America (USA) Congress which makes it cumbersome and difficult to procure sophisticated military hard wares from the Western powers to prosecute successfully the counter terrorism warfare.
The HURIWA, in a statement signed on Monday by its Executive Director, Emmanuel Onwubiko, also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to protest against what it described as sweeping indictments of the Nigerian military with the hierarchy of the US Congress.
According to the rights group, it has it on good authority that there exists functional human rights violations’ redress mechanisms put in place as far back as when Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd.) was the Chief of Army Staff (COAS).
“It is only a person not well informed that could settle down in his cocoon and issue baseless, sensational, irrational and totally farcical statements derogating and disrespecting with reckless abandon the esteem and respectability of an institution such as the Nigerian military which not too long ago received overwhelming acclaims for efficient peace keeping operations under the United Nations platform.
“To jump into laughable conclusions of branding the entire Nigerian military as a hub of rapists and human rights abusers because of some acts of human rights violations by some rogue operatives is nothing but illogical and delusional”, part of the statement read.
Credit: ThisDay (Nigeria)
