The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to dismiss his incompetent security chiefs and the National Security Adviser immediately.
The group in a statement by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko stated that if this is not done, the security situation in Nigeria will continue to deteriorate beyond remedy.
Reacting to media reports that terrorists in their large numbers on Thursday morning invaded the LEA Primary School, Kuriga (1), in Kuriga town of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and abducted dozens of pupils.
HURIWA said the increasing spate of attacks by terrorists have exposed the empty propaganda by spokesmen of the military regarding what they called breakthroughs in the war on terror. “They feed us with propaganda that they are eliminating top Commanders of terrorist groups but yet we keep reading about attacks by terrorists. So, who are these terrorists that have continued to bombard parts of Nigeria including Katsina, Borno, Benue and Kaduna states?”
The inability of both state and federal governments to secure lives, including school children and girls, depicts a nation that has failed.
The right group said dismissing incompetent security heads would spearhead realistic war on terror characterized by factually accurate counter-terrorism combats.
HURIWA recalled recent incidents where armed herders and militia staged sensational attacks on civilians leading to scores of casualties.
The Rights group said the President has tolerated a failed security architecture to be in place rather than undertake a holistic overhaul of the current incompetent security heads who are clearly incapable or unwilling to rein in terrorists and all kinds of armed non-state actors killing, maiming and destroying lives and properties of Nigerians in clear violation of the territorial integrity of the Sovereignty and the inability to protect lives and secure property of citizen amounts to a violation by the government of the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental duty of government which are to protect citizens and their property and to ensure the well-being and welfare of the citizens.
In a related news, HURIWA wondered why for over 48 hours that the media were awash with the information that Nigeria might be on its path to peace again after a decade of fighting terrorism as a UK-based Nigerian, Yunusa Jibrin said he has leveraged on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be able to identify bandits and their hideouts in Nigeria.
HURIWA recalled that the inventor said his findings, if adopted by the federal government, would help to direct the efforts of the military towards identifying and eliminating bandits wherever they may be hiding in the country.
Jibrin who is a Master’s degree graduate in computer science from the University of Sussex, told Vanguard on Sunday that he leveraged AI-driven image synthesis to generate thousands of visual representations depicting bandits in desert environments.
He said that his research achieved remarkable accuracy in preliminary evaluations by employing the use of a Vision Transformer (VT) model to discern terrorist elements.
“I undertook an innovative approach, leveraging AI-driven image synthesis to generate thousands of visual representations depicting bandits in desert environments, complete with weapons and vehicles.
“Employing this synthesized dataset, I employed a Vision Transformer model to discern terrorist elements within the images, achieving remarkable accuracy in preliminary evaluations,” the inventor told the media.
The Rights group alleged that it is possible that conflicts entrepreneurs embedded within the Nigerian government may stop the Federal government from going for this new innovation so terrorists can be traced and crushed decisively.
