The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has demanded that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu resign if he cannot protect citizens, particularly schoolchildren, from terrorist attacks. The group condemned recent abductions in Niger and Nasarawa States, where hundreds of students were kidnapped from Catholic schools in Nasarawa’s Rukubi and Niger’s Papiri.
HURIWA also slammed Catholic clerics Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, and suspended Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia for opposing U.S. military intervention against terrorists targeting Christians. The group warned that their stance amounts to betrayal of their flocks and pledged to petition the Pope for sanctions, including defrocking Alia.
Comrade Emmanuel Nnadozie Onwubiko, HURIWA National Coordinator, criticized both federal and state governments for failing to act despite intelligence warnings. “The President, as Commander-in-Chief, must deploy all available forces to defeat terrorists. Failure to protect lives is a dereliction of duty,” he said, calling on governors of Niger and Nasarawa States to resign if they cannot fulfill their security responsibilities.
HURIWA stressed that protecting citizens, especially schoolchildren, is non-negotiable, and urged decisive action to end the escalating wave of abductions and killings in northern Nigeria.
