A non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), has described the Presidential Special Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of the Security Challenges in the North as a scam.
The group noted that the panel, headed by the Minister for Special Duties, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), is a scandalous contraption which should not have been set up.
HURIWA urged President Goodluck Jonathan to disband the committee.
It also said members of the committee should return to the public coffers all expenses they incurred in the committee's "merry-go-round".
In a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA noted that it would amount to a grave disservice to public interest should the presidential committee continue to parade itself as genuine peace makers.
The group recalled that the President "had put a lie to the sensational and widely-publicised claim by the Chairman of the panel and Minister of Special Duties that the dreaded armed Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram, had signed a ceasefire with effect from the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan".
