Human rights organisation has called on Buhari to explain alleged release of Kabiru Sokoto– Sokoto is notorious Boko Haram kingpin who was accused and arraigned for 2011 Christmas Day bombing President Muhammadu Buhari recently stated that he is willing to swap Boko Haram prisoners for the Chibok girls.One of those, who may be freed to save the schoolgirls abducted more than two years ago, is notorious Boko Haram terrorist Kabiru Sokoto convicted for the killing of over 50 worshipers at the Mandalla Catholic church near Abuja on 2011 Christmas Day.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has appealed to President Buhari to tell Nigerians if he has released Kabiru Sokoto.Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, the group’s national coordinator and the Miss Zainab Yusuf, media affairs director, in a statement on September 11, reminded the president specifically that prior to his sentencing, the terror mastermind was blamed for withholding information on the plan to bomb St. Theresa Church.
The statement reads in part:“Sokoto was further accused of supporting act of terrorism by training 500 men and inciting them to commit terrorist act, contrary to Section 4(1)(a) and punishable under Section 33(1)(b) of Terrorism and Prevention Act 2011.
“The accused allegedly facilitated the commission of terrorist act to wit by planting and encouraging some boys (now at large) at Mabira, Sokoto in Sokoto State with the intention to bomb the police headquarters and some other government agencies in the state.
“The alleged offense is contrary to Section 15(2) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act 2004 and punishable under the same Act.”
Recently the deadly Boko Haram sect unveiled another video, in which the terrorists told the Nigerian government and the world that the group’s members held in various prisons be released before the girls could be freed.
Speaking in Nairobi during his working visit President Buhari restated his government’s willingness to negotiate with the terrorists to save the girls.
However, the reports emerged later that Buhari’s secret movesfor the swap failed.
