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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned the abduction of eight members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) by gunmen in Zamfara State. The rights group acknowledged the bold efforts by the management of the NYSC to get the corpers freed but has asked that operations of the NYSC be shut down for a short duration of time so all efforts would be geared towards freeing the hostages. 

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has warned political office holders in the current dispensation to check the disturbing tendencies of abuse of power and to always adhere strictly to the work ethics built on the principle of rule of law, integrity, transparency and accountability.

The Human Right Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the National Assembly to set up through a legislative framework by way of an executive bill, a body of just few independent experts to work as effective oversight platform over officers and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to stem the worrisome incidence of indiscipline and professional misconducts. 

The Rights group wondered why persons suspected to be kingpins of the underworld have upped their sophistication of violent attacks against the operatives of the NDLEA just as the Rights group advocated stringent penalties for such audacious crimes to serve as effective deterrent because if the drug barons know that their deviant actions of attacking NDLEA operatives have consequences,  then they will think twice before embarking on such dangerous idiocy.

The group said that Kukah presentation to the US Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs needs not to have generated controversy if not that Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari has “degenerated to a Banana Republic whereby the elected leaders of the country have transposed themselves into tyrants who are scared of the truth and who are doing everything under the sun to crush independent voices.”