UN aid workers: International community asked to rise against promoters of terrorism in Nigeria.

The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre, SHAC, has reacted to
the recent killing of United Nations, UN, aid workers by
members of the Boko Haram sect in Borno State.
The ISWAP faction of Boko Haram on Friday shared a gory
video recording that detailed the execution of four out of the
five abductees that remained in their captivity.
The four slain aid workers who were abducted on July 18
were staff of the Action Against Hunger (AAH).
The murder of the four aid workers has brought the number
of the abducted humanitarian workers slain by Boko Haram
to five this year.
Reacting to the development, SHAC said it is high time that
the world sanction France, other terrorists’ promoters for
crimes against humanity.
Addressing newsmen on Monday, Ibrahim Abubakar,
Executive Director of the group, called on the international
community to speak with one voice against those promoting
terror in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
Abubakar also called on the Nigerian Military to scale up
efforts to trace and free the fifth aid worker, Grace Taku, a
female, whom the terrorists have reportedly consigned to a
live of slavery.
“The world has again been made aware, through media
reports, of Boko Haram killing of four staffers of Action
Against Hunger (AAH), whom they have held captive since
July 19, 2019 after they were abducted from their vehicles in
the course of carrying out humanitarian work in the
northeast of Nigeria.
“The killing of the aid workers is condemnable, utterly
uncalled for and deserving of the stiffest retribution possible
from the Nigerian state and all nations on earth that truly
call themselves Nigeria’s friend. Barbarism of this
magnitude call for the shedding of diplomatic pretexts as it
should be met with the kind of response that will remind the
terrorists that humanity is not to be toyed with on the scale
on which they have done.
“We condemn this act of cowardice as a dastardly evil
against humanity that should not have happened if the
international interests propping up Boko Haram had taken
the sensible step of discontinuing criminal support to the
bloodthirsty monsters that they have created to torment
innocent civilians,” he said.
Abubakar stated that Boko Haram and its Islamic State
West Africa Province (ISWAP) iteration have recorded
successive heavy losses from the Nigerian Armed Forces,
adding that the reported escalation of French subversive
activities in the region, including clandestine delivery of
logistics to the terrorists, has given them the boldness to
kill captives that they had held before France decided to
strengthen their hands.
“The blood of the four aid workers is therefore as much on
the hands of Boko Haram/ISWAP as it is on the hands of the
French government and that country’s nationals, who
continue to aim for the comfortable life at the expense of
human loss in the Lake Chad Basin. The world must rise up
in unison against these terrorists and hold their French
paymasters to account.
“Time is running out for the world to speak with one voice
against those promoting terror in Nigeria and other parts of
Africa. If a bold statement is not made by the world at this
time, then the whole of humanity would be put at risk
because the twisted minds of these killers and their global
sponsors have been perverted to a point where reason fail
them. They must therefore be told in the clearest terms yet
that enough is enough. The killing of the aid workers should
be treated as a red line that has been crossed for which
there must be repercussions.
“As for NGOs and organizations that give covert support to
Boko Haram, the murder of these aid workers is a wake-up
call for them to retrace their steps because a group of
terrorists that kill their colleagues do not deserve any form
of support irrespective how morbidly such NGOs may detest
the military.” he stated.
“In the meantime, we urge the Nigerian Military to scale up
efforts to trace and free the fifth aid worker, Grace Taku, a
female, whom the terrorists have reportedly consigned to a
live of slavery. She remains the one ray of hope that the
authorities will always go after those that threaten the
wellbeing of citizens.”