After the
Governor of Borno State, Alhaji
Kashim Shettima, suggested that the armed Islamic insurgents would extend their terror attacks to the southern regions if they were not contained in the northeast, Onwubiko and his group called for the probing of the Governor. This triggered a harsh response by another Northern Civil Organisation group, who accused Onwubiko for giving the terror attack by Islamic Boko Haram a tribal connotation. Onwubiko and his group in their rebuttal insisted that though it has no empirical evidence to link the Borno State governor to the attempted terrorists incursions into the South-East even though it advised politicians to be typically clever and surreptitious with their public statements so as not to provide psychological motivation or instigation for would-be terrorists." Onwubiko and his group HURIWA had also called on the nation's travellers to withhold their patronage of
British Airways and other foreign airlines in view of recent revelations about the airlines' unethical practices, until such concerns are redressed. The group he heads, HURIWA, has more than six thousand media releases on varied thematic issues of human rights. On 28 April 2016, Onwubiko and the group he leads, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, inaugurated their modest library project named '''The Professor Chinua Achebe's Human Rights Library''' in
Abuja. Onwubiko's pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation (NGO), Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on 11 May 2016 petitioned the European Union (EU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and foreign embassies over invasion of its office by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) what was perceived as attempts by the government to intimidate him and his group over their outspoken stand against the government's suppression of free speech. ==References==