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Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, counselled the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to speak less about the ongoing terrorism in Nigeria because of alleged half-truths and propaganda.
HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the half-truths and propaganda he spews out often during his public speaking engagements, constitute grave threats to national security and could make Nigerians with actionable intelligence not to trust the government enough as to make disclosures.
The group stressed that part of the problems of not realising the objectives of fighting the war on terror is the mixed signals and body language that persons with the confusing missions will often always try to contradict military Generals each time they issue stern rebukes or warn terrorists.
HURIWA asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ban Mohammed from using public office to provide a morale boost to Islamic terrorists by issuing contradictory statements to water down the instructions and statements made by the Generals, who are the persons directly commanding the war on terror or is he carrying out a pre-planned programme?
It also wondered why Mohammed had to come out a few days after the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor gave a stern warning to terrorists hibernating around the North West and those of them...
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