Plateau crisis: DHQ threatens legal action against HURIWA

Director Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau

Plateau crisis: DHQ threatens legal action against HURIWA

The Defence Headquarters has said it would not hesitate to take legal action against Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) if it continued to mislead the people over the crisis in Plateau State.

The military high command said this in a statement by the Director Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, yesterday.

The statement followed HURIWA’s faulting of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa’s approach to addressing the ongoing violence in Plateau State.

The group issued a statement on Sunday signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, where it expressed deep concern over the recent escalation of violence, particularly the Christmas Eve attacks on over 20 communities in the Barkin-Ladi, Mangu and Bokkos areas of Plateau State.

It criticized the CDS’ response, especially the deployment of a Special Fact-Finding Team led by retired Maj.-Gen. Augustine Agundu to investigate the root causes of the attacks.

In response to the statement, the DHQ said HURIWA was “ill-informed and could not spend time researching on efforts the military had made to restore normalcy in troubled areas of the country.”

The DHQ chronicled efforts by the military to arrest the situation including numerous intelligence-driven operations that had been conducted which led to the arrest of key suspects who were currently undergoing interrogation.