Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on security agencies in the country to arrest the killers of two Labour Party candidates in Imo State and women leader in Kaduna State.

HURIWA cautioned that the political killings should not be swept under the carpet as inaction may fuel more of this unpardonable and carnivorous act.

HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, insinuated that the dominant and mainstream political parties are scared of the different opinion polls conducted by independent pollsters.

The group also criticised the heads of the security agencies for allegedly acting like collaborators and co-conspirators with the killers.

In late November, the women leader of the Labour Party in the Kaura local government area of Kaduna State, Victoria Chimtex, was gruesomely assassinated when gunmen invaded her residence at night and shot her.

Barely three weeks after, the Labour Party House of Assembly candidate for Onuimo constituency in Imo State, Christopher Elehu, was also assassinated by gunmen who shot at him repeatedly and burnt his house.

Also, three years ago, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women leader, Salome Abuh, was shot and set ablaze at her residence in the Ofu local government Area of Kogi State.

Onwubiko said, ‘The assassinations of the two Labour Party’s candidates for House of Assembly in Imo State and Women leader in Kaduna State are totally condemnable, uncivil and anti-democratic and must be stopped by security agencies with immediate alacrity’.

HURIWA said security agencies must be apolitical and arrest all troublemakers including the killers of Chimtex and Elehu and the women leader.

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