HRAN condemns UN bombing, calls for accountability
By Innocent Anaba
LAGOS— The Human Rights Agenda Network, HRAN, yesterday, condemned last week’s bombing of the UN House in Abuja.
HRAN in a statement by its chair, Mr Chino Obiagwu, and Mrs. Itoro Eze Anaba, coordinator, said: “We consider this unjustifiable attack on UN workers engaged in helping poor and helpless Nigerians, as wicked and unpardonable by humanity and by God. UN staff and volunteers are human rights and humanitarian workers and for any group to attack them shows the group’s misplacement in human society.
“The government of President Goodluck Jonathan should view the UN House bombing as an attack on his regime, capacity and resolve to address the severe deterioration of national security. We demand his urgent response through drastic and intelligence-driven steps to dismantle all covert and overt threats and while bringing to account those charged with the responsibility of ensuring the security of lives and property in Nigeria.
“We are concerned that despite several suspected and claimed terrorist attacks by groups across the country, including the bombing at the Abuja Eagle Square, police posts and of recent its headquarters, varied communities and individuals, the Nigeria’s intelligence and security apparatus are yet to arrest any of the key members of these groups or to trail them to the satisfaction of Nigerians.”
“It is a glaring sign of critical gaps in the security and intelligence that these groups of various shapes and grouse fail to be tracked and tackled. This is despite of huge sums of money appropriated each year by Federal and State governments as security votes. Clearly, the leadership of the country’s intelligence is proving a total failure and should not remain a day in office.
“We call on President Jonathan to sack immediately the leadership of Nigeria’s intelligence and security agencies and to overhaul the outfits to make them fit to respond to the emerging assault on peace and good governance,” they added.
