HURIWA Lauds Wike Over Steps To Check Insecurity, Tasks Police

HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has expressed joy that the Federal minister of the Federal Capital Territory Mr Nyesom Wike has responded robustly to the yearnings of residents of the Federal Capital Territory towards curtailing and effectively combating the heightened state of insecurity in the nation’s Capital.

HURIWA said the efforts by the FCT Minister and the authorities of the FCT to equip the police to be up and doing is a tangible way of providing the needed assurance to the rightly panicky residents who are overwhelmed by the deluge of armed kidnappings and other manifestations of terrorism that have threatened the stability of the Federal capital territory.

The group added that the demolition of rickety structures built by hoodlums in motor parks and other strategic areas of the metropolitan Area by the FCT Administration has driven many armed hoodlums, terrorists and kidnappers away from those abodes which were their operational bases in Abuja.

HURIWA further added that the Wike-led administration in Abuja must sustain the efforts and ensure that those demolished illegal structures are not rebuilt as soon as the government’s focus moves to another issue.

HURIWA applauded the Inspector-General of Police Mr Kayode Egbetokun for setting up a specialised outfit to wage war against kidnappers in the FCT.

However, the rights group said the police is part of the problem that breeds kidnappings because since the year 2015 till date, over 1,000 terrorists and kidnappers arrested in and around the FCT have been paraded to the media.

The group, however, muttered that as soon as the media shows are over that the kidnappers so paraded are freed to return to their familiar criminal underworld because the police can’t provide verifiable evidence of any sorts of effective and efficient prosecution of these set of kidnappers so paraded.

HURIWA is therefore tasking the citizens to become active citizens and demand accountability from the police on what exactly has happened to all the kidnappers and terrorists paraded to Nigerians by the Force Headquarters since the year 2015 till date.

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