The Nigerian Army and the current Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari “should take the full blame for the spike in deadly attacks by the armed Boko Haram terrorists in the North East of the country, including the deadliest attack by any terror group globally which was recorded in a border town between Borno State and Chad Republic in which nearly one hundred Nigerian soldiers were massacred.”

This is the position of the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA),as contained in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.

HURIWA accused President Buhari and the military top command of systematically undermining and sabotaging the ongoing counter-terrorism war “by the intermittent releases into the open society of previously detained members of the armed Boko Haram terrorists who were caught in the line of fire but has been set free instead of ensuring that the full weight of the Nigerian law including the anti-terrorism laws are brought to bear on persons who had waged unlawful war on the Nigerian State and are responsible for some estimated 30,000 killings of innocent people and the destruction of the towns; villages and livelihoods of North East of Nigeria estimated at well over $100 billion USD.”

HURIWA reminded the Nigerian government that “these persons been released back into the society even when millions of citizens thrown into the internally displaced persons camps are left to wallow in mass poverty, hunger and diseases including violent sexual abuses by soldiers and armed security forces are the same hitherto armed Boko Haram terrorists that destroyed the livelihoods of these unfortunate members of the society who are internally displaced and are dying in their numbers due to neglect by the Nigerian government.”