HURIWA Asks Tinubu To Release Kanu, Rejig Security Architecture

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has set agenda for the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

 As a matter of priority, the association called for a reorganisation of security architecture to secure Nigeria.

It also called for the immediate release of the leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, while demanding police reforms and revival of the economy.

HURIWA, in a statement by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said Nigerians expect t Tinubu to immediately change the present crop of service chiefs.

The group urged the new president to replace the current heads of security agencies and bring in fresh blood with new ideas to protect the nation against banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, herdsmen aggression, amongst others.

HURIWA also asked President Tinubu to broker peace with all secessionist agitators in the country, saying no man will want to leave Nigeria, if there is inclusion in governance for all parts of the country, one of the main ideas shunned by the departed administration of Muhammadu Buhari.

At his inaugural speech in Abuja on May 29, President Tinubu promised to impartially govern Nigeria according to the constitution and the rule of law and defend the nation from terror and all forms of criminality that threaten the peace and stability of the country and its subregion.

Onwubiko said President Tinubu should quickly settle in and start work as Nigeria is already in economic and security crises.

“The new president must focus on security, reorganisation of heads of armed forces, DSS and Police, police reforms, state police not controlled by governors, amongst others. He should shun nepotism in strategic security appointments.

“We call for national truth and reconciliation commission just like that of South Africa.  Also, we call for immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu and cessation of all hostilities in the South East by armed groups,” he said.