HURIWA TO TINUBU: Sack your incompetent Security Chiefs now before we are all kidnapped 

Oru Leonard 

Wonders why government has made no public plan to buy the newly invented Artificial Intelligence to catch terrorists:

Prominent civil rights advocacy group: Human  Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has expressed surprise if President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is waiting for the security situation in Nigeria to deteriorate beyond remedy before he could dismiss his thoroughly incompetent security chiefs and the National Security Adviser even as the Rights group said the President should prove naysayers wrong by dismissing his security heads who have only given Nigerian poor performance and fallacious excuses.

HURIWA was reacting to the information filtering into the media that terrorists in their large numbers on Thursday morning invaded the LEA Primary School, Kuriga (1), in Kuriga town of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and abducted dozens of pupils. HURIWA said the increasing spate of attacks by terrorists have exposed the empty propaganda by spokesmen of the military regarding what they called breakthroughs in the war on terror. “They feed us with propaganda that they are eliminating top Commanders of terrorist groups but yet we keep reading about attacks by terrorists. So who are these terrorists that have continued to bombard parts of Nigeria including Katsina, Borno, Benue and Kaduna states?”

HURIWA stated that information from the media revealed that the latest incident of the invasion of a primary school happened around 8:20am immediately after the assembly. The Head teacher of the school and some other staff are reportedly among the kidnapped victims. HURIWA which lamented the inability of both the states and the federal government to deliver their constitutional mandate of securing lives of citizens including school children and girls of Nigerian origin, depicts a national that has failed just as the Rights group said the situation is not yet irreparable if the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Nigeria can dismiss his security heads who are incompetent and chose fresh heads from amongst the many bright and patriotic military Generals so as to spearhead realistic war on terror characterised by factually accurate counter terrorism combats and not the media propaganda that Nigerians are currently dished out with by the security agencies.

HURIWA recalled that the media quoted a resident, Shitu, as confirming the incident to them, even as the media source disclosed that most of the pupils ran out of their classes when they sighted the bandits on the school premises.

Another resident, Lawal Kuriga, also said that the abducted victims were marched into the forest by the armed bandits.

The Rights group said the daily kidnappings of citizens by terrorists including the most recent abduction by terrorists in Borno State of over 100 girls into the bush, show that the security chiefs have ran out of any sort of effective ideas to save the nation from collapsing under the heavy weights of cocktails of violent and bloody attacks by terrorists, armed bandits, kidnappers, cultists and private militia all across the Country. “Mr. President, are you waiting for the worst case scenario before you change your security strategy and remove the non-performing service chiefs?”

HURIWA recalled the recent incident in Benue State in which armed herders and militia reporyedly staged sensational attacks on civilians leading to scores of casualties.

The Rights group said the President has tolerated a failed security architecture to be in place rather than undertake a holistic overhaul of the current incompetent security heads who are clearly incapable or unwilling to rein in terrorists and all kinds of armed non-state actors killing, maiming and destroying lives and properties of Nigerians in clear violation of the territorial integrity of the Sovereignty and the inability to protect lives and secure property of citizen amounts to a violation by the government of the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental duty of government which are to protect citizens and their property and to ensure the well-being and welfare of the citizens.

In a related development, HURIWA through its National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, wondered why for over 48 hours that the media were awash with the information that Nigeria might be on its path to peace again after a decade of fighting terrorism as a UK-based Nigerian, Yunusa Jibrin said he has leveraged on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be able to identify bandits and their hideouts in Nigeria.

HURIWA recalled that the inventor said his findings, if adopted by the federal government, would help to direct the efforts of the military towards identifying and eliminating bandits wherever they may be hiding in the country.

Jibrin who is a Master’s degree graduate in computer science from the University of Sussex, told Vanguard on Sunday that he leveraged AI-driven image synthesis to generate thousands of visual representations depicting bandits in desert environments.

He said that his research achieved remarkable accuracy in preliminary evaluations by employing the use of a Vision Transformer (VT) model to discern terrorist elements.

“I undertook an innovative approach, leveraging AI-driven image synthesis to generate thousands of visual representations depicting bandits in desert environments, complete with weapons and vehicles.

“Employing this synthesized dataset, I employed a Vision Transformer model to discern terrorist elements within the images, achieving remarkable accuracy in preliminary evaluations,” the inventor told the media. The Rights group alleged that it is possible that conflicts entrepreneurs embedded within the Nigerian government may stop the Federal government from going for this new innovation so terrorists can be traced and crushed decisively.

HURIWA said the president needs to remove his non-performing service chiefs and the National Security Adviser now so as to appoint fresh security heads to salvage the nation from the avoidable heightened state of insecurity which the current heads of the security agencies have failed to do.

(HURIWA Media)