The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Monday, alleged that both President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Benue State Governor, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, “have so far displayed attitudes to the senseless killings of Benue state natives by Fulani terrorists with INSENSITIVITY and baseless politicking with the sanctity of the lives of Benue State people.”

HURIWA particularly condemned President Tinubu “for accommodating and tolerating incompetence and inefficiency of his military and police chiefs just as HURIWA condemned the Benue State Governor for shown dismissive aloofness to the gravity of the situation of mass slaughter of his people by Fulani terrorists.”

According to the rights group in a statement signed by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, "It is sad that the Benue State governor that is not just a nominal politician but a trained Philosopher and Theologian and an ordained priest in the Holy Roman Catholic Church, has so far shown dismissive attitudes to the genocides going on against his kinsmen, women and especially children by Fulani terrorists masquerading as herders.

"Governor Alia's statement that his administration and president Tinubu fought the killings from 9 local government areas to 3 is pedestrian, illogical, vexatious and grossly insensitive. It shows an offensive level of incompetence on the part of this governor who ought to be a worshipper of truth and shouldn't play partisan politics with the sanctity of lives of his people.

"His (Alia's) invitation of armed police to disperse peaceful protesters at the weekend in Makurdi drawn almost entirely from his own people, is vexatious, unconstitutional and illegal because the right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed under the Grund Norm of Nigeria even if the state is under terrorists attacks.

"The statement by the President shows that he is pampering terrorists because of his selfish political ambitions of second term which doesn't even make sense because Fulani is a minority ethnicity and those killing in the name of Fulani ethnicity are just few bad eggs who are even condemned by many right thinking, rational and God- fearing Fulanis who are opposed to the activities of the few well-armed Fulani terrorists."

HURIWA said that the President is playing with fire by showing that he tolerates the incompetence of his military chiefs from whom he still receive the brief that formed the media statement he issued which showed a high level of failure to appreciate the enormity of the attacks in Benue state. Why is the president relying on crooked information from his non-performing military chiefs and the failed IGP? Why wouldn't the President visit Benue state and see things for himself and hear from the victims who managed to survive? just as the Rights group said this President has already made identical reactions to virtually all terrorists attacks that have happened since he came to office just as HURIWA then wondered how a government who does the same thing all the time is expecting to defeat a well determined terrorists and Fulani insurgents. Why can't the President work with committed professionals, patriots and persons with fresh brains and ideas as service chiefs and IGP including NSA?

HURIWA said the only solution to the attacks by FULANI TERRORISTS is to stop pampering the killers and to decisively crush these terrorists, arrest and prosecute mass killers even as HURIWA said the President has even gone as far as pacifying the killers by establishing a separate but altogether needless ministry for Livestock, appointed Fulani as minister and appointed another Fulani, Attahiru Jega, as adviser on livestock even as Tinubu is tinkering with a plan to seize lands from communities to donate to Fulanis to use as grazing fields.

The rights group has asked Nigerian communities under attacks by Fulani terrorists to defend themselves by all means humanly possible since the federal government has failed in its constitutional primary duty of protecting lives and property but is rather playing politics of appeasement for terrorists and allowing persistent bloodletting to continue unrestrained. HURIWA recalled that even the Director General of DSS had asked Nigerian communities under terrorists’ attacks to defend themselves.