HURIWA Flays FG For Hiding Identities Of Boko Haram Sponsors

Civil Rights Advocacy Group: Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has called on the Federal Attorney General and minister of Justice Mr. Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, to make full disclosures to Nigerians regarding the identities and particulars of offences of the daredevil financiers of terrorism in the Country.

The administration had claimed that it was hiding their identities so as not to jeopardise the investigation.

HURIWA said the crass failure of the current government to disclose the identities of the financiers of the terrorists whose activities have led to the killings of over 50,000 citizens over the past decade, amounted to cover-up on the part of the current administration going by the fact that investigation has gone on for far too long.

The Rights group stated that advanced democracies automatically publish and authorise the release of information  on the particulars of offences and the identities of financiers of terrorism as soon as such information is generated and therefore wondered why Nigeria is an exception.

HURIWA is worried that the President Tinubu’s administration is adopting the same archaic, shady and ludicrous pattern adopted by its predecessor which wasted over three years without publishing the names of the financiers of terrorists in Nigeria even when in 2022  the United Arab Emirates had convicted some of those financiers of terrorism in Nigeria when the UAE law enforcement Agency intercepted the Nigerian sponsors of the boko haram terrorists when they arrived in Dubai from Nigeria.

HURIWA said the federal Attorney General and minister of Justice got it wrong for failing to give Nigerians the identities of the suspected financiers of terrorism because as far back as 2022, six Nigerians were publicly sanctioned by the United States for raising funds in United Arab Emirates for the terrorist group, Boko Haram, where they were convicted. Besides, HURIWA maintained that Freedom of Information Act is a law of the Federation which obliges the government to provide relevant details of the identities of outlaws and terrorist masterminds.

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