Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, says the Federal Government displayed injustice by releasing 1,009 Boko Haram fighters despite the detention of embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko; and the group’s Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, made this known in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘Release Of Boko Haram Suspects Is An Impeachable Offence: – HURIWA Tells President Buhari’. The group was reacting to a PUNCH report that the Nigerian military on Wednesday released 1,009 ex-Boko Haram insurgents, who had been in military custody at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The former terrorists were later handed over to the Borno State Government in a secret ceremony that was initially billed to take place at an earlier date but was suspended indefinitely by the military authorities in the wake of the appointment of the new Chief of Army Staff. Reacting, HURIWA said, “The trending report of the freeing and resettlement of hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari is not just an unpardonable ethical crime but amounts to an impeachable offence by the President because it undermines the basis of the rule of law.

Source: Punch July 15, 2021 14:37 UTC