Piqued by the reported successes recorded by the armed rebels in the North East of Nigeria and the spate of unwarranted blood cuddling violent attacks targeted at soft civilian targets, a call from a democracy inclined Non-Governmental Organization, the Human Rights Writers Association, has appealed to Nigerians to step up their collective and individual moral and motivational support to the military operatives and officers waging the current war on terror.
HURIWA also asked the Federal Government to specifically set out a day within the coming year to honour with awards the combatants who excelled as a way of boosting their morale.
In a statement signed jointly by the National coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, condemning the bombing of a secondary school in Potiskum, Yobe State, HURIWA lampooned the Yobe State Government for doing almost nothing to prevent “this unwarranted attack even after the neighbouring Gombe State’s administration had earlier proactively shut down all public and private schools immediately after the bomb attack at the public bus park”.
The rights group also upbraided the Yobe State Government for the abysmal state of neglect of the health infrastructure in that state, which has compounded the situation of the victims of the recent bomb attack in the all boys school “as can be conspicuously glued from photographic evidence widely circulated in the popular Nigerian press”.
The Rights group further disclosed that her attention was called to the ugly state of medical facilities in parts of Yobe State by some concerned citizens who called in to express their disgust at what they called “primitive standards of the health infrastructure”.
The rights group has therefore called on the state government to take verifiable and concrete measures to reequip the public hospitals to be in a good state to treat and handle emergency cases that have arisen from the unfortunate spate of violent terrorism targeting civilians.