Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) has condemned the inaction and apparent silence of the federal government after the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters said they have killed M. Uba, a brigadier general, following the ambush of a convoy of soldiers and operatives of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Borno state.

The national coordinator,  Emmanuel Nnadozie Onwubiko, in a statement Tuesday said the circumstances surrounding the capture of Brigadier General Uba by the Islamic terrorists and his gruesome killing execution style, is emblematic of the unprecedented penetration of the defence and national security architecture by terrorists.

 HURIWA said any functional government in any civilised nation that loses a serving military general would by now be launching the most massive counter insurgency attacks with the aim of decimating, degrading and defeating the terrorists. 

“Why is the Nigerian State normalising the abnormalities? Why are citizens slaughtered, military Generals and officers killed by terrorists but the government keeps going about business as usual without taking any publicly known concrete actions to show national and collective outrage?”

HURIWA said the fact that it seemed like the military general was left to be captured by the military institution going by his last conversations as widely publicised just as the ability of the terrorists to track down his location by breaching the communication architecture of the military and then used the information of dislocation provided to the hierarchy of the Armed Forces of Nigeria to precisely locate him, demonstrates either that there are many agents and affiliates of the terrorists embedded in the army as claimed previously by the Borno state governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, and several other security analysts in Nigeria or that our national security communications infrastructure is sabotaged.