The Human Right Writers Association Of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on the Federal Government to immediately arrest and prosecute the controversial Islamic Cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi.
HURIWA said its call follows Gumi’s consistent defense of what it described as “the atrocities and blood-curling violence unleashed on innocent citizens by the largely Fulani terrorists in the North West of Nigeria”.
HURIWA, in a statement endorsed by the National Coordinator, Emmanuel Nnadozie Onwubiko, condemned the Federal Government’s selective adherence to the counter terrorism law by failing consistently to rein in and arrest Sheikh Gumi the Kaduna based Islamist for possible prosecution for providing moral and propaganda support for terrorists.
The Rights group said, “it was morally wrong that the federal government has kept Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra for ten years in detention of the secret police for seeking the self determination of the Igbo speaking region of Nigeria but the same government has looked the other way when the Kaduna State based Islamic cleric has continuously provided ample intellectual support to the North West based Fulani terrorists and he has continued to pollute the media space canvassing for amnesty for mass murderers and terrorists.”
HURIWA reminded Tinubu who was once a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that Nigeria has detailed counter terrorism provisions in its domestic law.
“A 2011 counter terrorism law was amended in 2013 and then again in 2022, a law that made capital punishment the maximum sentence for certain terrorist offences,” the statement stated.
It added, “There is a caveat in the law for the exercise of the fundamental human right of peaceful protest.”
