HURIWA, the Nigerian Human Rights Writers Association, has slammed the United States of America for unilaterally removing Nigeria from a list of nations that violate religious freedom.
Recall that the United States removed Nigeria from its list of nations that violate religious freedom on Wednesday.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed this.
Nigeria was placed on the US’s blacklist for violating religious freedom in December 2020.
HURIWA, in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, reacted to the development by saying that the US government under Joe Biden has shown “a nonchalant tendency concerning the massive religion-motivated genocides that are currently going on under the active watch and conspiratorial connivance of the Federal Government of President Buhari who concentrated the powers of the presidency,”
HURIWA said it was inappropriate for the US to make such a provocative and dumb choice when hundreds of thousands of Christians from Northern Nigeria are still being slaughtered by Moslem Fulani armed militias backed by officials in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
The rights group demanded that the decision be reversed immediately by the President of the United States and the United States Congress.
