Pantami On The Spot As HURIWA Asks Him To Condemn Taliban Takeover Of Afghanistan

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has been put on the spot by a civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) to comment on the development in Afghanistan.

Taliban group has taken over the leadership of Afghanistan after the president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country.

Green White Green (GWG) recalls Pantami was earlier in the year accused of being associated with Al-Qaeda and Taliban terror groups.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) and some concerned Nigerians also demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari sack the minister without further delay, given the sensitivity of the issue at stake.

The Presidency, however, described the allegations as a smear campaign against the minister, saying the Buhari administration stands behind all Nigerians including the minister against unfair treatment.

Meanwhile, a former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, claimed the secret police informed the Federal Government and the National Assembly of the past radical pro-Taliban views of Pantami before his confirmation as a minister in 2019.

Following the recent development in Afghanistan, HURIWA Pantami to condemn the takeover of the country by the Islamic militant group known as the Taliban or the Mujahedeen.

HURIWA, in a statement on Tuesday by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the minister should condemn the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan to show that he has indeed renounced his extremist views.

The statement was titled, ‘Minister of Telecommunications and Digital Economy should denounce Taliban in Afghanistan to show he has truly renounced his previous media reports of endorsement-: says HURIWA’.

HURIWA said Pantami “should have denounced the Taliban in Afghanistan as a practical demonstration that he has indeed renounced whatever sentiments or support he reportedly expressed in the past for Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

“We urge the minister to use this as a golden opportunity to distance himself from the Taliban so Nigerians believe that he indeed is not playing some tricks on us,” the group said.

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