Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has described the invasion of Chief Clark’s home as an inexorable descent to fascism by the government.
Ozekhome, in a statement, said the action of the police was appalling and highly condemnable.
The statement reads: “Decency has been thrown overboard, human sanctity and dignity mean nothing to these implacable power mongers, irredentists and historical revisionists.
“We are now in a dangerous era of untrammelled impunity where opposition elements, critics of government and dissenting voices are serially accused either of gun-running, murders, treason, armed robbery, or other heinous crimes. All these, towards the magical 2019.
“It is conceded that the Police can search the home of any Nigerian suspected of having committed an offence, but what arms could the Police be looking for in the serene abode of an old man who has never been involved in violent activities other than the barely veiled advancement of a well choreographed act of intimidation, harassment and coercion of all voices of dissent against the obnoxious policies of this vindictive and clueless government?
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“Recall that on two occasions in the last one month, Chief Clark (PANDEV), Prof Ango Abdullahi (Northern Elders Forum), Chief Ayo Adebanjo (Afenifere), Chief John Nnia Nwodo (President-General, Ohaneze Ndigbo) and leaders of the Middle Belt had met in Abuja, wherein they discussed the faltering contraption called Nigeria.
“At those summits, they literally passed a vote of no confidence on the Buhari-led federal government, scored it abysmally low on all indices of governance, and actually gave him a red card, advising him to retire to his Daura home.
“These hawks in government, using state coercive apparatchiks to settle political scores, cajole opposition and decimate critics of government, easily forget that it was on the crest of these same adjuncts and pillars of democracy that constituted the very pivot on which they rode to power in 2015.
“The clouds of intolerance currently hovering over the horizon are frighteningly ominous. Allow Chief E.K.Clark be, for God’s sake.”
