Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has taken her agitation for all anti-corruption bodies in Nigeria to subscribe and comply fully with the constitutional principles of RULE OF LAW and push back any external pressure to resort to media orchestrated persecution of any alleged offender but to follow due process.
HURIWA also threw her unalloyed and total solidarity and support with the anti-corruption crusade of the EFCC which it maintained should be law-based and tailored towards strict compliance to the principle of rule of law and provisions safeguarding human rights of citizens encompassed in the GRUND NORM of the Nigerian state.
HURIWA’s peaceful assembly backed up by the constitutional provisions on freedoms of peaceful assembly and information enshrined in the binding chapter 4 of the constitution, was necessitated by the deluge of politically procured and motivated protests by politicians against the serving cabinet member of the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the person of the minister of state for Defence. HURIWA is hereby advocating the observance of the tenets of the law that recognises even suspects as being totally innocent in the eyes of the law until a contrary determination is reached by a competent court of law and not court of seekers of ‘lynch mob injustice’.
At the event attended by several affiliates and supporters of civil Rights and democracy, HURIWA’S national coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko read out a letter the Rights group also presented to the executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Mr. Olanipekun Olukayode even as the letter goes as follows:
Titled: SPONSORED PROTEST AGAINST MATAWALLE: POLITICS CARRIED TOO FAR AND A DISTRACTION:
