The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has issued one of its most scathing assessments of the Tinubu administration’s handling of Nigeria’s security crisis, declaring that the country’s counterterrorism architecture has completely collapsed and that the federal government’s current strategy has failed.
In a statement signed by its National Coordinator Emmanuel Obwubiko in Abuja, HURIWA said the recent wave of deadly attacks spanning from Plateau State to the Northeast was undeniable evidence that Nigeria’s security framework under President Tinubu is broken and requires urgent structural overhaul.
The group was reacting specifically to reports that 20 security operatives and vigilantes were killed in a brutal ambush by heavily armed bandits in Wanka and surrounding communities in the Garga axis of Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to the Kanam Development Association, the victims included 12 security personnel, among them two senior military officers and eight vigilante members who had been assisting security forces in protecting vulnerable communities.
The joint patrol team was reportedly travelling in two vehicles on a routine security operation covering the Garga, Kyaram and Gyambau communities when hundreds of bandits ambushed them near Wanka at approximately 2pm on Friday, resulting in a deadly exchange of gunfire that left most of the operatives dead.
HURIWA through an interview with Arise News Tv described the development as a tragic and alarming national security failure, noting that the killing of trained soldiers and senior military officers by non-state actors was a serious red flag that the country’s counterterrorism strategy was no longer working.
The group went further, citing separate reports of targeted killings in Plateau State including the brutal murder of traders travelling to a market in the Barikin Ladi axis, where gunmen reportedly stopped vehicles at an improvised checkpoint, interrogated passengers about their identity and opened fire on those who identified themselves as Hausa traders.
HURIWA also referenced reports indicating that at least 65 Nigerian soldiers were killed in coordinated raids by ISWAP insurgents in the Northeast within a two-week period. The insurgents reportedly overran several military bases in Borno State, killing dozens of soldiers and abducting hundreds of civilians while deploying sophisticated weapons including anti-aircraft machine guns and drones.
The group called on the Tinubu administration to implement urgent structural security reforms, warning that Nigeria risked descending further into chaos if the current trajectory was not reversed immediately.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has issued one of its most scathing assessments of the Tinubu administration’s handling of Nigeria’s security crisis, declaring that the country’s counterterrorism architecture has completely collapsed and that the federal government’s current strategy has failed.
In a statement signed by its National Coordinator Emmanuel Obwubiko in Abuja, HURIWA said the recent wave of deadly attacks spanning from Plateau State to the Northeast was undeniable evidence that Nigeria’s security framework under President Tinubu is broken and requires urgent structural overhaul.
The group was reacting specifically to reports that 20 security operatives and vigilantes were killed in a brutal ambush by heavily armed bandits in Wanka and surrounding communities in the Garga axis of Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to the Kanam Development Association, the victims included 12 security personnel, among them two senior military officers and eight vigilante members who had been assisting security forces in protecting vulnerable communities.
The joint patrol team was reportedly travelling in two vehicles on a routine security operation covering the Garga, Kyaram and Gyambau communities when hundreds of bandits ambushed them near Wanka at approximately 2pm on Friday, resulting in a deadly exchange of gunfire that left most of the operatives dead.
HURIWA described the development as a tragic and alarming national security failure, noting that the killing of trained soldiers and senior military officers by non-state actors was a serious red flag that the country’s counterterrorism strategy was no longer working.
The group went further, citing separate reports of targeted killings in Plateau State including the brutal murder of traders travelling to a market in the Barikin Ladi axis, where gunmen reportedly stopped vehicles at an improvised checkpoint, interrogated passengers about their identity and opened fire on those who identified themselves as Hausa traders.
HURIWA also referenced reports indicating that at least 65 Nigerian soldiers were killed in coordinated raids by ISWAP insurgents in the Northeast within a two-week period. The insurgents reportedly overran several military bases in Borno State, killing dozens of soldiers and abducting hundreds of civilians while deploying sophisticated weapons including anti-aircraft machine guns and drones.
The group called on the Tinubu administration to implement urgent structural security reforms, warning that Nigeria risked descending further into chaos if the current trajectory was not reversed immediately.
