By Chidi Nkwopara
A call has gone to President Muhammadu Buhari to accept responsibility for the killings across the country.
A human rights and pro-democracy group, Human Right, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders Foundation, HURIJE, made the call in a statement by its chairman, Dede Uzor Uzor, saying the call became expedient after their investigative tour of Zamfara and Kaduna States.
He said: “The statistics showed that there was no day in Nigeria 10 persons were not killed. This figure gives an indication of a country in a state of war.”
The group expressed worry that their findings showed that the war was being waged against the citizenry by the Boko Haram sect, herdsmen, bandits and other criminal elements, who appear bent on perpetuating heinous crimes in the country.
According to the statement, “this continuous trend of killings without any serious response from the President is a clear indication that he lacks the political will to…
