As Nigeria joined the rest of the universe to celebrate the International Human Rights Day on Tuesday, the Centre for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (CHURAC), has said that the event should have been a moment of sober reflection for President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Barrister Alaowei E. Cleric, CHURAC President, in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos on Wednesday, stated that the Federal Government should set an agenda for the protection and preservation of human rights as enshrined in our constitution.
CHURAC said: “President Buhari needs to clean his bartered image on the area of human rights abuses by security agencies under his control.”
It stressed that Chapter Four of the nation’s constitution, which it said was adopted from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, should be held sacrosanct by the government, maintaining that every of its action ought to conform to the dictate of the constitution.
CHURAC said: “The Gestapo styled invasion of the residents of Justices of superior courts of Nigeria as well as the continued detention of political prisoners in spite of the court judgments ordering for their release are the worst human rights abuses by the Buhari’s government.
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“Nigeria’s international image has been bartered. Buhari should place the rule of law above national security. His security agencies, especially the Department of State Service (DSS) are only enforcing rule of self-help.
“The security agencies are posing a big threat to our democracy. Buhari cannot rule Nigeria with his unconstitutional rule of self-help.
“The serial disobedience to court judgments by his lawless security agencies is an invitation to anarchy. The case of Omoleye Sowore is the height of the illegalities. For the FG to defend the DSS over its despicable act of rearresting the #RevolutionNow Convener inside the courtroom means that Buhari is putting our democracy at risk.
“As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to observe the human rights day, our demand is that all political prisoners who are held in defiance to court judgments should be immediately released. Omoleye Sowore, Col. Sambo Dasuki and many other persons currently languishing in the dungeons should be released by the government to mark this year’s human rights day.”
