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HURIWA urge Nigerians to protest, boycott NIN/SIM registration

The Human Rights Writers Association Nigeria, HURIWA, on Monday, urged Nigerians to massively boycott the National Identification Number, NIN, and SIM registration.

HURIWA described the timing of linking NIN to SIM cards as suicidal, hence Nigerians should boycott the exercise if they have not enrolled with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).

The rights group said the refusal of Nigerian government to halt the process amid the spike of COVID-19 was insensitive and irresponsible.

HURIWA made the call in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko.

According to HURIWA: “The reason for the people of Nigeria to protest against this policy of government is not that it is a bad policy; but the timing of the implementation of that policy is suicidal.

“That the Nigerian government has remained inconsiderate, irresponsible, insensitive, irresponsible and not being responsive to the agitation of millions of Nigerians that have called on the government to suspend the exercise until such a time that the second wave of COVID-19 is checkmated, is disappointing.

“Therefore, the last card the people of Nigerians have is to massively protest either symbolically through active civil disobedience methodology or boycotts of the exercise or physical demonstrations on the streets. We call on all Nigerians including policemen and women to protest.

“The protest does not mean physical protest alone unless they are pushed to their limits then they can come out wearing their face masks, observing physical distancing but anything other than this, the people can also boycott the exercise.

“Yes, the reason they should protest is because the timing of the exercise is a threat to their lives because the second wave of COVID-19 is on a global rampage and people are dying in their thousands in Nigeria and many who have attended that registration exercise have died from COVID-19. HURIWA has learnt of some fatalities related to that dastardly ill-timed exercise.”

January 19, 2021
DISMISSED NABDA’S DG: HURIWA ACCUSES ICPC OF COVER UP, PETITIONS AGF/MINISTER OF JUSTICE

A prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group-: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has petitioned the Federal Attorney General and minister of justice Abubakar Malami(SAN) to investigate the allegations that an unnamed top official of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences commission (ICPC) secured employment slots at the embattled National Biotechnology Development Agency Agency (NABDA) under the then acting Director General Professor Alex Akpa so as to grant soft landing to the now dismissed head of the agency over alleged heist of N400 million.

The Rights group said the secrecy surrounding the release from detention of the said sacked acting DG of NABDA Professor Alex Akpa by the ICPC for over a Month and the non- disclosure of the status of that matter which apparently has not been charged to Court fuels the allegations obtained from an intelligence source embedded within the management of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) that a lot of hurriedly packaged employment slots were allotted allegedly by the then acting DG when he acted for two years in anticipation that should there be need to be called to answer charges of financial impropriety that the ‘big Masquerade’ with a lot of influence within the ICPC could grant him soft landing. HURIWA has asked the nation’s Chief Law officer to use his powers to investigate whether there is any credibility or believability in the intelligence provided to us by some very top directorate officials at the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA). “We had confronted the disgraced erstwhile acting DG of NABDA Professor Alex Akpa with this intelligence but he flatly denied it as an act of falsehood against him by his enemies hunting him out of office. However, HURIWA thinks the AGF/MINISTER of Justice should find out why the ICPC has been silent on the accusations they publicly made against the dismissed acting DG of NABDA Professor Alex Akpa for over one Month since his widely publicised detention from which he immediately secured a bail and till date no word has been said if the alleged disappeared N400 million has reappeared”.

In a statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, the Rights group said the Minister of Science and Technology Dr Ogbonnaya Onu has also been petitioned to address the public on the allegations against his nominee who couldn’t secure the substantive appointment as DG of NABDA Professor Alex Akpa just as the Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) told the Science and Technology minister that it is important that he speaks so Nigerians will know if he played a role or not in the said disappearance of that huge amount of public fujd given that he is the direct supervisory Minister overseeing NABDA. “We know Ogbonnaya Onu to be someone who wouldn’t want his reputation muddied so we expect him to provide immediate and far reaching clarifications on this allegations”.

Specifically, in the letter to the Federal Attorney General and minister of justice Abubakar Malami, titled “ON PROFESSOR ALEX AKPA AND THE ICPC: DEMAND FOR YOUR INTERVENTION”, the Rights group said the following:

“We write on behalf our over ten thousand registered members and several other affiliate bodies.

Sir, we ask you to investigate the alleged collusion and compromise of officials of the independent corrupt practices and other related offence commission (ICPC) in the matter involving the just dismissed acting director general of an agency under the Federal Ministry of science and Technology known as National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) in the person of Professor Alex Akpa.

We recall that the said Alex Akpa who spent two years in acting capacity was recently sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari and a replacement made.

The said disgraced erstwhile DG OF NABDA has had brushes with the law leading to his detention by the ICPC.

But regrerrably, to the shock of most Nigerians, he was picked up, detained only briefly and for a month that he was released, the ICPC has neither filed a suit nor has it made full public disclosure on the status of the allegation that the gentleman pilfered N 400, Million intervention fund belonging to NABDA.

We were also told by some top whistle blowers within NABDA, that both ICPC and EFCC allegedly got some employment slots during the two year reign of the removed acting Director General so they can institutionally cover his tracks. This intelligence can not be ascertained by us since we are not institutionally empowered to go through the records of employment that took place whilst Professor Alex Akpa acted as Director General and couldn’t get confirmation for substantive appointment. But the office of the Federal Attorney General and minister of justice Abubakar Malami SAN can comfortably obtain the information through administive means.

Kindly investigate to see if there is any verifiable or concrete evidence of compromise on the part of ICPC which could explain the long silence about this same matter for which ICPC had officially informed the public that Alex Akpa was detained.

We are doing this to assist President Muhammadu Buhari in his avoided fight against corruption. Your quick response and action will demonstrate your zeal to assist the President Muhammadu Buhari to carry on vigorous and corruption war.

December 23, 2020
HURIWA decries shutting down of restaurants without bailout
The decision of the Federal government to order the immediate closure of restaurants and other small and medium scale businesses for fear of the spread of the CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC in Nigeria as announced by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Mr. Boss Mustapha has been described as absolutely wicked, irrational, heartless and mean hearted since the Nigerian government did not transparently re-distribute financial bailouts and palliatives to the millions of restaurant operators and owners of other businesses ordered to shut down their operations ad infinitum for fear of second wave of the health emergency.

Making these observations is the nation’s most prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group-:HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) which also carpeted the Nigerian Government under President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to publicly render accounts of what was done with the multibillion dollars donations in cash and kind made to corporate Nigerians in aid of distressed Nigerians to cushion the consequences and the crushing economic effects of the prolonged shut down of the economy by the Federal government which lasted over eight months without any form of financial bailouts handed over to the many businesses that folded up due to the government’s imposed lockdown when the CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC in Nigeria arrived around March of this year.

Signed by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) in the media Statement accused the federal government of recklessness and massive neglect of their starutory obligations enshrined in the fundamental objectives and directive principles of State Policy of the Nigerian Constitution and the binding obligations contained in the plethora of human rights provisions of Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 as amended which specifies that THE SECURITY ABD WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE SHALL BE THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT (SECTION 14(2)(B) just as the Rights group said the failure of the Nigerian Governmentto clearly implement the distribution of FINANCIAL PALLIATIVES TO THESE SMALL SCALE BUSINESSES ORDERED TO SHUT DOWN OPERATIONS WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE amounts to an attempt to send millions of Nigerians to their early graves.

HURIWA recalled that the Presidential task Force on Covid-19 headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Mr. Boss Mustapha issued a statement ordering the shut down of certain businesses for fear of another wave of COVID-19 in the Country but failed to address the critical component of what government has done to ameliorate the consequences of this senseless and reckless directives of government on businesses as contained in the following statement by Boss Mustapha thus:

“National Briefing for Monday 21st December, 2020

2. Over the past four briefings, the PTF has been raising the alert flag on the rising number of infections in the country and the possibility of a second wave arriving at our shores.
1. Recent Epidemiology records confirm to the PTF that Nigeria is now facing a rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide which is similar to the second wave of infections occurring in other countries across the world. Particularly, Lagos, Kaduna and the FCT have emerged as the new epicentres during this period, with over 70% of all confirmed cases.
4. Two major indicators highlight the current increase in cases and transmission across Nigeria. These are:

i. Notwithstanding the fact that our testing numbers are fast approaching the peak recorded in July 2020, the number of cases being reported are disproportionately higher. For example, in the FCT, despite recording an increase of 85% in tests conducted over the last week, the number of confirmed cases increased by 285% during the same time period; and

ii. These trends point to a higher Test Positivity Rate (TPR- the number of positive cases detected as a proportion of all tests). The TPR was below 5% through September and October and we recorded a low point of 3% nationally in late October 2020. However, recent trends in cases has seen this number increase to 10% in the second week of December.

These high numbers are further reflected in the increase of admissions to COVID-19 treatment centres and fatalities, particularly in the three epicentre states.

5. The result of the analysis carried out by the PTF further indicate that the current pattern of spread, and the surge is likely to be driven by the following factors:

i. the lack of compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions – particularly the disregard for mask use in public, large gatherings as a result of events linked to the yuletide season and recent civil demonstrations.

ii. Further disregard for other public health preventive measures, such as hand hygiene and physical distance requirements;

iii. The activities and assumptions of our youthful population which has resulted in an increase in the infection rate among young people, who are subsequently infecting older and more vulnerable family members.

6.From our assessment, the current situation are clearly the consequences of certain occurrences and events of the last few weeks. These include:

i. Sudden increase in social gatherings involving large congregations from different parts of the country, and the world, at events such as weddings, religious activities, political rallies, conferences and end of year celebrations;

ii. These events, classified globally as ‘supers-spreader events’, make the risk of a single infection causing a large outbreak among attendees significantly higher;

iii. Furthermore, as we reopened the economy, we experienced increased economic, social and religious gatherings and activities all of which have combined to play a part in viral transmissions. These include:

a) The opening of the international airspace in September 2020 – While the average number of daily imported infections into the country in the last 90 days is estimated to be about 7 cases, compared to 100-150 reported new infections in the community since the beginning of community transmission, the test positivity rate in travellers arriving Lagos has recently doubled to 6.3%;

b) The resumption of schools – outbreaks have been reported in schools following the resumption of physical classes;

c) The resumption of NYSC orientation camps – this risk has been mitigated by ensuring that all NYSC members were screened for COVID-19 prior to admission to camp, but confirmed cases have still been identified through tests carried out;

d) The full opening of offices with the return to work of government workers from GL. 12 and below – outbreaks have also been reported in public offices, most likely linked to overcrowding, poor ventilation and the lack of compliance with non-pharmaceutical interventions; and

e) The opening of the economy with progressive relaxation of restrictions in congregational areas such as places of worship, restaurants, bars, lounges, shopping and event centres.

7. You will also recall that the PTF established the Nigeria International Travel Portal for the control of possible importation of the virus. Statistics show that a good percentage of in-bound travellers have breached the travel protocols thereby making surveillance and testing suffer undue setbacks. The following statistics will be of interest.

a) As at date, 163,818 inbound travellers have been captured on the portal;

b) Out of this number, 77,025 (47%) made payment for post arrival testing;

c) 64,405 (84%) of the number are due for post-arrival test;

d) Out of 44,189 (69%) that were due for post-arrival test, 44,189 representing (59%) of those tested; and

e) 20,216 (31%) have not shown up for post arrival test thereby endangering members of the community and breaching the protocols they signed up to.

8.The PTF has concluded arrangements with the Nigeria Immigration Service to impose sanctions on these defaulters for breaching the public health protocols, within ambit of the law.

9. The PTF has surveyed developments and actions taken by governments around the world, assessed our domestic environment and has accordingly submitted its recommendations to Mr. President on immediate measures to be taken.

10. Accordingly, His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has authorised the PTF to engage with the States and the FCT to assume full ownership of this stage of the response by deploying legal structures and resources, including enforcement to manage the pandemic within their jurisdictions:
1. In line with the authorisation, the PTF wishes to issue the following advisories to sub-national entities for implementation over the next five weeks because these activities are considered super spreader events:
a. Close All bars, night clubs, pubs and event centres, and recreational venues;

b. Close all restaurants except those providing services to hotel residents; takeaways, home deliveries and drive-ins shall remain closed;

c. Restrict all informal and formal festivity events including weddings, conferences, congresses, office parties, concerts, seminars, sporting activities, end of year events shall be restricted to not more than 50 persons;

d. Limit All gatherings linked to religious events to less than 50% capacity of the facility of use during which physical distancing; mandatory use of face masks shall be strictly enforced

e. Where more than 50 persons are attending, any such events, the gathering should be held outdoors only;

f. Public transportation systems are to carry passengers not more than 50% of their capacity in compliance with social distancing rules.

g. Enforce compliance with NPI protocols especially the advisory on wearing of face masks in public spaces;

(ii) To reduce overcrowding in public spaces, markets, shopping centres, offices and schools States are advised to implement the following:

a. Encourage virtual meetings in government Offices. The leadership of such offices are to ensure that all offices are well-ventilated offices, and encourage staff to work from home where possible;

b. All government staff on GL.12 and below are to stay at home for the next 5 weeks; Permanent Secretaries and Chief Executives are to be held accountable for enforcing NPI rules in their domains with frequent spot checks;

c. The PTF on the advice of the Federal Ministry of Education, expects that schools would have vacated from the 18th December 2020 and remain .”

HURIWA has therefore asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to send millions of poor Nigerians to shut down their only sources of living and expect them to go home and die even as the Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) stated that the NIGERIAN PRESIDENT must provide immediate and far reaching PALLIATIVES and financial bailouts ti these businesses before expecting total compliance.
December 23, 2020
HURIWA Condemns Threats Against Ned Nwoko’s Life

The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group-: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has expressed shock and consternation at the reported threats being made against the life of one of Nigeria’s best known Philanthropists and politicians- Prince Ned Nwoko by some forces allegedly opposed to his fast rising status in the contemporary society.

The Rights group said the security forces including the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu and the Director General of the Department of States Services Malam Yusuf Bichi Magaji should as a matter of national urgency, take immediate steps and far reaching actions to investigate the allegations because of the dangerous times that we are in whereby the value of life in Nigeria has been sacrificed on the alter of mischief and organised charade by series of armed non state actors in collaboration with certain reactionary forces embedded in some levels of government in Nigeria.

In a media Statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) said on no account should these reported threats be taken for granted given the trajectories of violent incidents and cocktails of killings that have occured in the sleepy town of Idumuje Ugboko in Delta State as consequences of some fratricidal discord over traditional stool and other land ownership related disputes for which some suspects have already been charged before the Federal High Court, Abuja division for terror related charges.

HURIWA said that for months, we have expressed concern about series of demonizing and highly incendiary newspaper articles and news materials obviously sponsored to graphically depict Prince Ned Nwoko as an insatiable land grabber and obviously erroneously blaming him for the decisions of the Federal Attorney General and minister of justice Abubakar Malami(SAN) to institute charges of terror related offences slammed on some persons connected allegedly with the fratricidal land and traditional stool related disputes in Idumuje Ugboko in Delta State whereby the ex- Federal House of Representatives member and the UK trained Maritime Lawyer is building the first of its kind Sports and Science University known as STARS UNIVERSITY with forty percent equity conceded to the catchment area of Idumuje Ugboko which is the ancestral home of the prominent lawyer Prince Ned Nwoko.

“By this media Statement, on behalf of over ten thousand registered members and three thousand affiliate associations, the HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) is specially appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to direct his security chiefs to transparently and comprehensively investigate these allegations of threats to the lives of Prince Ned Nwoko, his family members and associates. We live in a season of organised killings and the security forces should not take it lying low. We do not expect that the security forces will fail to take pre-emptive action to prevent any sort of killings from happening rather than do nothing until someone is hurt and then to spring into action. These allegations are serious enough to be given the highest priority”.

HURIWA quoting media reports stated that ,Hon. Ned Nwoko had fingered RainOil’s founder, Gabriel Ogbechie in connection with an alleged plot to murder him (Nwoko). The person been fingered has already denied the allegations.

HURIWA recalled that In a press statement released by Nwoko’s media office and made available to newsmen, Ogbechie was said to have already been arrested and drilled by the police at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command, Abuja, to tell them what he knew about the despicable plot to assassinate Prince Ned Nwoko.

Nwoko’s statement is in reaction to a press conference held by Dr Gabriel Ogbechie of Rain Oil and the subsequent publications over the communal crisis at Idumuje-Ugboko, in Aniocha North local government area of Delta state, as well as his denial of being arrested by the police .

The statement reads in full: “The attention of Honourable Prince Ned Nwoko, through phone calls , text messages and mails, have been drawn to a press conference held by Dr Gabriel Ogbechie of Rain Oil and the subsequent publications over the communal crisis at Idumuje-Ugboko, in Aniocha North local government area of Delta state “.

HURIWA recalled that the media office of Prince Ned Nwoko graphically presented the alleged plots against his life thus: “To put the records straight, a prisoner in Kuje Prison overheard his fellow inmates discussing a plan to assassinate Prince Ned Nwoko. These imnates were hoodlums arrested for the mayhem in Idumuje-Ugboko in 2017 and they are now facing trials for murder and terrorism in a Federal High Court , Abuja. Ogbechie is widely known to have arranged bail for some of these gangsters and he has published same in the media.

As the hoodlums talked about their barbaric and demonic plans, they also mentioned names of their collaborators and sponsors . References were made to an oil magnate in Idumuje-Ugboko, who owns chains of filling stations and that is Dr Ogbechie. Both Ogbechie and Prince Ned hail from this village.

Their fellow inmate and whistle blower who overheard their devious plot did not know Prince Ned. But he knew Prince Ned Nwoko ‘s wife, Regina Daniels Nwoko, to be the Brand Ambassador to a product, a brand owned by a member of his church. So, he quickly sent a text message to the church member on what he had heard. It was the church member who then alerted Regina Daniels Nwoko,prompting her to inform her husband.”

HURIWA said: “We are saying it loud and clear that the heads of the security forces must up their investigative game to seriously consider activating immediate but thorough forensic investigations of these plots against Prince Ned Nwoko who has over the past few Months faced unwarranted attacks against his person only because of his near infinite generosity to his immediate community and for speaking out against oppressive and reactionary forces bent on enslaving poor people in Idumuje Ugboko and subjecting them to odious indignities and humiliation all because they are standing on their grounds of principles against what they perceived as attempts to hijack their revered traditional institution by certain interested parties for their personal aggrandizement”.

December 12, 2020
HURIWA to ICPC /CCB- Save Nigerian Local Councils From Governors’ Corruption

*Applauds ITF Over High Ethical Standards:

A charge has gone to the independent corrupt practices and other affiliated crimes commission (ICPC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to wake up from institutional slumber and monitor the financial dealings of Local Government Councils in the country.

The prominent Non- Governmental and Civil Rights Advocacy Group:- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) lamented that the apparent compromise or institutional lethargy by ICPC and CCB is responsible for the offensive scale of grand corruption at the local government councils especially regarding the operations of the states/local governments joint accounts.

Relatedly, the Rights group has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing a Director General for the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Mr. Joe Ari that has manifested an uncommon exhibition of respect and strict adherence to ethical codes of conduct for public officials and transparency code in the running of that Federal agency.

The Rights group recalled that news report stated that the Director-General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Joseph Ari, has lauded the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for ranking the ITF first for ethics compliance and integrity amongst 352 Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

The Rights group said the Mr. Ari in a press statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs Department, Suleyol Fred Chagu, said the commendation came as a result of the surveyed carried out by the ICPC in 2020. The statement said other MDAs that were equally considered to have displayed high compliance to integrity and ethics according to the Ethics Compliance and Integrity Scorecard (ECIS) of the Commission include, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Federal College of Education Kano, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) and Raw Materials, Research and Development Agency amongst others.

Speaking on the increasing scale of corrupt practices at the local government councils, the Rights group through the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, tasked both the ICPC and CCB to work out strategies for carrying out effective oversight of the financial transactions of the local government councils because according to the group, it is the collapsed state of social amenities at the Local Government Councils created by the total non- existence of good governance standards at that third tier of government that has made millions of Nigerian families absolutely poor.

“We believe that the ICPC and the CCB may be colluding with state Chief executives so the vicious circles of fraud, disappearances of local government allocations from the federation accounts have continued to expand in leaps and bounds just as it noted that rural poverty which results from local governments’ deeply entrenched political corruption has become a grave threat to national security which must be checked by the institutions set up to inculcate and enforce laws on transparency and accountability in public offices. HURIWA stated that THERE is absolutely no need for President Muhammadu Buhari to issue an executive order to bring into being the financial autonomy of the third tier of government had it been that both the ICPC and CCB were up and doing with their statutory mandate of fighting corruption of all ramifications.

“We wonder why the ICPC and the code of conduct Bureau have both become miserable toothless bulldogs that stand by whilst the common wealth belonging to the citizens at the grassroots are stolen by governors and their foot solders posted like colonial tax collectors by governors to their local government councils against section 7 of the constitution and democratization of local council. Specifically, section 7 of the 1999 constitution states thus:Local Government System(1) The system of local government by democratically elected local government councils is under this Constitution guaranteed; and accordingly, the Government of every State shall, subject to section 8 of this Constitution, ensure their existence under a Law which provides for the establishment, structure, composition, finance and functions of such councils.”

HURIWA said the reason for the governors violating section 7 of the 1999 Constitution was to enable them post their boys and mistresses as administrators to continue to perpetuate the continuous heist of the council funds and they are getting away with these crimes against humanity because the institutions of ICPC and CCB that should effectively check and stop the financial leakage may be benefiting from the financial bonanza.

HURIWA stated that Code of conduct bureau Act in Section 2 and 3 of code of conduct Bureau authorised the effective monitoring of finances of local councils thus: “Section 2. Aims and objectives of the Bureau

The aims and objectives of the Bureau shall be to establish and maintain a high standard of morality in the conduct of government business and to ensure that the actions and behaviour of public officers conform to the highest standards of public morality and accountability. Section 3. Functions of the Bureau

The functions of the Bureau shall be to‐

(a) receive assets declarations by public officers in accordance with the provisions of this Act;

(b) Examine the assets declarations and ensure that they comply with the requirements of this Act and of any law for the time being in force;

(c) Take and retain custody of such assets declarations; and

(d) Receive complaints about non‐compliance with or breach of this Act and where the Bureau considers it necessary to do so, refer such complaints to the Code of Conduct Tribunal established by section 20 of this Act in accordance with the provisions of sections 20 to 25 of this Act:

Provided that where the person concerned makes a written admission of such breach or non‐ compliance, no reference to the Tribunal shall be necessary.”

Besides, HURIWA said the law empowers ICPC to eradicate Local Councils grand scale corruption by virtue of the enabling law in Section 6 (a-f) of the ICPC Act 2000 sets out the duties of the Commission as paraphrased in the following: “a) To receive and investigate complaints from members of the public on allegations of corrupt practices and in appropriate cases, prosecute the offenders.

b) To examine the practices, systems and procedures of public bodies and where such systems aid corruption, to direct and supervise their review.

c) To instruct, advise and assist any officer, agency, or parastatal on ways by which fraud or corruption may be eliminated or minimized by them.

d) To advise heads of public bodies of any changes in practice, systems or procedures compatible with the effective discharge of the duties of public bodies to reduce the likelihood or incidence of bribery, corruption and related offences.

e) To educate the public on and against bribery, corruption and related offences.

f) To enlist and foster public support in combating corruption.”

December 8, 2020
Arrest And Prosecute Abia’s Chief Of Staff Now: – HURIWA Tells CBN

The failure of Mr. Godwin Emefiele to employ the services of the law enforcement agents to lawfully prosecute prominent persons who obscenely break the extant law prohibiting the spraying of the national currency has made Nigeria appear like a banana Republic whereby might is right and the rich are exempted from the law.

Making the observation is the leading Civil Rights Advocacy body in the country:- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) which reacted to the trending viral video in which the Abia state’s governor’s Chief of staff Mr. Anthony Agbazurere was conspicuously seen displaying ostentatious lifestyle by brazenly abusing the National Currency of Nigeria by spraying them on the controversial Onitsha, Anambra State based self-acclaimed prophet Mr. Chukwuemeka Ohanamere also known as “ Odumeje” inside the hallowed chambers of the government house in Umuahia, Abia state.

The Rights group said that aside the Central bank of Nigeria and the office of the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu, the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and the Code of Conduct Bureau ought to order the arrest and prosecution of the public official working for governor if Abia state for displaying a conduct unbecoming of the law and ethics of holding such a high publicly funded office in Nigeria being a nation that is governed by law.

HURIWA condemned the lack of interest on the part of Godwin Emefiele the Central Bank of Nigeria’s governor who has consistently looked away whilst the law against the spraying of Naira and other legal Currencies do occur and are circulated on vital videos.

The Rights group said the governor of CBN is only interested in being deployed as political attack dog of President Muhammadu Buhari to chase after suspected sponsors of the recently disrupted peaceful ENDSARS protests, whose bank accounts were unconstitutionally frozen but the same person has failed to bring perpetrators of unlawful and willful abuse of the Naira such as the self made prophet who has been reported to the CBN but the CBN failed to act because the governor allegedly allows big men to offend the law without repercussions.

“We hereby call on the Inspector General of Police Mr. Mohammed Adamu to salvage the nation’s waning image and to tell the World that Nigeria is not a banana Republic whereby some persons are above the law just as he is charged to arrest both “Prophet Odumeje and Mr. Anthony AgbaZuere the chief of staff to governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia and prosecute both of them for abusing the Naira in such a brazen display of lawlessness. The reported suspension of the Chief of Staff is only but a political statement. The law is very clear that such offences must be prosecuted by the police. The IGP should act decisively and professionally”, HURIWA stated.

HURIWA recalled the propaganda news report that stated recently that the Central Bank of Nigeria under the leadership of Godwin Emefiele was ready to clampdown on anyone who abuses the Naira notes.

The Rights group said that according to the CBN, spraying of Naira notes amounts to “abusing the country’s symbol of sovereignty.”

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned that abusing and spraying of Naira notes may get you a jail term.The apex bank said it has started clamping down on the abuse of Naira notes nationwide.The CBN director of Corporate Communications Department, Isaac Okorafor, made this known on Saturday, June 15, 2019 in Owerri at a one-day interactive session.

HURIWA also recalled that Mr. Okorafor said the abuse of the naira notes is a crime in Nigeria. He added that spraying the currency amounts to “abusing the country’s symbol of sovereignty.”He said, “We have begun the clampdown on the abuse of naira notes. It is a very big offence to spray our naira notes. It is the symbol of our national sovereignty”

“The law is very clear on it. When you abuse the notes by spraying them, you get a jail term, or a N50,000 fine or both.”

“We have told banks to assemble all the old or mutilated naira notes for reprinting. We have given banks three months to do that.”

In October 2018, the CBN announced that any Nigerian who sprays Naira notes at parties risks a six month jail term or a N50, 000 fine.

The apex bank also said mobile courts would be deployed nationwide to enforce the law.

Also in December 2018, the CBN threatened to arrest and prosecute Nigerians for abusing Naira notes with the possibility of jail time or an option of fine, if found guilty”.

HURIWA however expressed dismay that there have been instances of abuse of the Naira by prominent politicians but the CBN has spectacularly given the wrong impressions that there are sacred cows who can not be touched by the law enforcement agencies no matter how public and obscene the offences of spraying of the National currency appears to be in any kind of viral videos.

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December 7, 2020
HURIWA Blasts Governor Umahi Over False Allegations Against PDP Chiefs

A frontline Civil Rights Advocacy group-: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has called on the heads of security forces and the Armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria not to allow themselves to be used for political witchunt of leaders of the Ebonyi State chapter of the People’s Democratic party (PDP).

HURIWA stated that these select PDP Chiefs include the past and current national Assembly members just as the Rights group said the governor of Ebonyi State Mr. Dave Umahi is playing political pranks with the serious national security issues by attempting to rope in some Peoples Democratic party chieftains into a phantom allegations of funding cultists to torment crisis in Ebonyi State.

HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) spoke against the backdrop of the accusations based on tissues of gossips and conjectures made by Governor Dave Umahi against some PDP leaders in Ebonyi state including national Assembly members from Ebonyi State elected on the platform of the PDP and who refused to cross carpet to the All Progressives Congress alongside the governor of Ebonyi State.

The Rights group said the Ebonyi State governor must be called to order so he does not muddy up and mess up the security forces still smarting from the monumental public image FIASCO created by their roles in shooting peaceful protesters in LEKKI Toll Gates Lagos on October 20th 2020 which is already a matter of global concerns with Great Britain threatening to slam diplomatic sanctions on Nigeria for the violence unleashed by armed forces against peaceful protesters in LEKKI Toll Gates Lagos. “The police and the military are still battling to clean up the bad image. Let the Ebonyi State governor not be allowed to drag the heads of the nation’s armed forces into partisan politics and thereby scuttling their professional and institutional pride of place. “Umahi can not be the judge and prosecutor in his own case. He can’t be allowed to use what he even admitted to be fake news to accuse innocent Nigerians of sponsoring armed cultists to destabilize peace in Ebonyi State. Is he the Chief of defence staff or is he the Commander in chief of the Armed forces that he now determines who gets police security or not?”

HURIWA recalled that the governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, on Friday alleged that one of his predecessors, Senator Sam Egwu, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Pius Anyim, and National Assembly members from his state who failed to cross over into APC with him were allegedly plotting to unsettle the peaceful atmosphere in the State.

HURIWA recalled that Mr. Umahi who made the vow to ‘wrestle’ his political rivals to the ground while briefing journalists shortly after a meeting with all security chiefs in the state made the following speculative and fictitious accusations against the select PDP leaders: “I want the media to note that I reported an allegation that some Ebonyi people are engaging cultists and according to them, some IPOB members to start killings and crisis in Ebonyi State in the name of fighting Ebonyi State government and the governor.

“And their leader is Senator Anyim Pius Anyim and their members are Dr. Sam Egwu, Senator Obinna Ogba, Mr Ali Odefa and others.

“This is alleged information I got and I needed to share this information with the security agency. The reason is that every governor in the state has been fought by the same set of people and it is very interesting to know that the same senator Pius Anyim fought the former governor Egwu and many people were killed.“I am not saying that this information is true or not but I needed to raise an alarm because lives will be lost, I pray to God that this shouldn’t be true. And I have asked the security agencies to reach out to them.

“Finally, I have also directed security agencies to ensure the implementation of policies on tinted glasses of vehicles in the state. The use of a siren and then the police escort”.

However, the Rights group said the governor should be arrested after the expiration of his immunity for building on speculation to try to frame up charges of sponsorship of cultists against respected political leaders only because they insisted on the grounds of principle, equity, freedom of choice and Constitutional freedom of ASSOCIATION to remain in the PDP whilst the governor who got every political privileges and offices and positions courtesy of the platform of the PDP then decided against rational thinking to move over to the ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS.

“HURIWA is calling on the Nigerian Police Force to keep Mr. Dave Umahi on their watch list so he is taken in to defend why he had to frame up allegations as weighty as sponsorship of armed cultists against persons who refused to defect with him to his newly found political family of All Progressives Congress and these allegations even by his own admission were not even as credible as the cheapest tissues of beer parlour gossips. We want to remind the heads of the nation’s security Architectures that not too long ago, the Nigeria Police accuse two men of providing false information leading to search on Ekweremadu’s building. HURIWA also wishes to remind the heads of Nigerian Security that the Nigeria Police Force went on to arraign a 50-year-old man, Ahmed Echodo, for allegedly misleading the police to conduct a raid at a building belonging to the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

According to the one-count charge, two defendants were accused of the offence, although only Mr. Echodo was arraigned at a magistrate court in Abuja.

Security operatives had ransacked Mr. Ekweremadu’s building on Friday morning following information accusing the occupants of criminal offences. They found nothing incriminating during the search. HURIWA preaches equity and equality before the law. The governor of Ebonyi State who has admitted reporting PDP chiefs in his state over threats to the security of his state based on hear say and speculation should be made to face the long arm of the law because nobody is above the law. Ebonyi State governor is this same person who for good 6 years as PDP governor has been quoted to have praised all these persons who he is now demonizing as political demons. How come that for 6 years they were POLITICAL SAINTS and as soon as you move over to another political party and you wanted them to move with you and they as grown adults and persons of integrity refused to betray the PDP, you then picked up road side gossips that they are funding cultists and you are playing God threatening to withdraw the security details attached to them. We totally and absolutely CONDEMNS this resort to self help and the attempt through primitive and crude means to force persons who want to remain in PDP to join you in APC. We will be taking further advocacy action to ensure that governor of Ebonyi State does not think that he is the POLITICAL GOD OF THE SOUTH EAST AND THEREFORE WILL DETERMINE WHO GOES WITH POLICE PROTECTION OR NOT. This is absurdity taken too far”.

November 28, 2020
HURIWA to Speaker: Take responsibility for the killing of Abuja vendor

Demands Speaker’s resignation and payment of N100 million to the family of the ASSASINATED Newspaper Vendor:

The speaker of the Federal House of Representatives Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila has been asked to take responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Abuja Newspaper Vendor Mr. Ifeanyi Okereke by a security aide attached to the speaker just as the Rights group dismissed the tepid explanation offered by the parliamentarian on the tragic but entirely avoidable incident.

The Rights group said the Speaker is in the terrible habit of moving about and around Abuja with hundreds of people in his convoy and wonders why such a man that had his higher education and worked in a civilized Clime like the United States of America could be so power drunk and primitive as to intimidate poor residents of Abuja each time he needs to attend a function. “The other day at a five star hotel, the Speaker was seen with nearly one hundred people attending just one meeting. The fuel and human resources wasted in running the office of Speaker in the current administration is outrageous and wayward”. HURIWA CONDEMNS the killing of the vendor as pure murder and has demanded for the immediate arrest, prosecution and punishment for murder of the trigger happy cop who shot and killed the Abuja Vendor.

“In management as well as in political leadership, the revered ethical principles of responsibility and accountability demands that speaker Gbajabiaila takes total responsibility for the irresponsible conduct of his personal security assistant who reports directly to him just as HURIWA says the speaker showed insensitivity and reckless lack of empathy by failing to render first aid assistance to the Vendor the moment he was shot going by the reports that the speaker allegedly asked the trigger happy security detail why he shot at the Vendor. The attempt by the speaker to spread propaganda seeking to exculpate or exonerate his person from that despicable crime is totally unacceptable.”

HURIWA said also that: “Accountability in the considered opinion of intellectuals and scholars is a readiness to have one’s actions judged by others and, where appropriate, accept responsibility for errors, misjudgments and negligence and recognition for competence, conscientiousness, excellence and wisdom.” While responsibility is defined as a bundle of obligations associated with a role, accountability could be defined as “blaming or crediting someone for an action”—normally associated with a recognized responsibility. The accountable actor is “held to external oversight, regulation, and mechanisms of punishment aimed to externally motivate responsive adjustment in order to maintain adherence with appropriate moral standards of action.” The Rights group said the Speaker should and must take responsibility.

In the statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf HURIWA has therefore asked the speaker Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila to tender his resignation from the high office of speaker and also to ensure that the killer security detail is prosecuted and sanctioned for murder.

HURIWA recalled that the the speaker had said thus: “A horrible incident has taken place. This evening as I left the national assembly, I stopped as usual to exchange pleasantries with the newspaper vendors at the corner. Many of them have known me since I first moved to Abuja and it was a friendly exchange.Unfortunately, after the convoy set out in continuation of movement, unidentified men obstructed the convoy which got the attention of security men in the convoy who shot into the air to disperse them.

Some hours later, after getting to our destination, it was brought to my attention that someone was hit by a stray bullet, contrary to an earlier report by men in the convoy that they applied their security discretion to shoot in the air”.

HURIWA, has however faulted this line of presentation and has called for a thorough investigation of the incident just as the Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) stated that it was almost impossible that the speaker was unaware that his security staff had killed a vendor going by the fact that he was indeed the person who stopped to allegedly offer cash gifts to the vendors who stampeded to share from his NAIRA RAIN before his security aide extra legally killed the innocent poor vendor. The Rights group said the Speaker should pay a compensation of N100 million to the family of the Newspaper Vendor that was slaughtered by a security detail working for him.

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November 20, 2020
Buhari Lacks Political Will to Reform Nigeria Police: Says HURIWA

The frontline Civil society body-: HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has lamented that the loud body language, actions and inaction of President Muhammadu Buhari since the #ENDSARS protests stopped, show a bellicose and confrontational President who rather than resolve the deep seated issues is bent on ‘revenge’ against protesters.

“President Muhammadu Buhari’s directives to the Central Bank of Nigeria to freeze bank accounts of suspected backers of the nationwide peaceful #ENDSARS demonstrations, their prosecution over trumped up charges, the use of amorphous and cash – and – carry Non – governmental organizations to file court cases against notable national leaders of the organized Civil Rights bodies such as Femi Fulana (SAN) and Musicians for backing the # ENDSARS peaceful protesters and the threat by the President that he will never allow #ENDSSARS protests again in the country shows that all the claims by President Buhari that he is determined to reform the decadent Nigerian Police Force is a ruse and a deception.

The Rights group carpeted the President for failing to do the needful by sacking the non- performing Inspector General of the police Mohammed Adamu and ordering the personnel audits of the Nigerian Police Force to ascertain the exact workforce of the Nigerian Police Force with a view to reposition it for productivity and professionalism. “The Nigerian Government under President Muhammadu Buhari has no political will to reinvent the wheel in the area of applying a holistic and fundamental reforms of the near-moribund Nigeria Police Force. The President is so used to the old order and is not in any way disposed or willing to bring about the required changes to overhaul the Police in line with best global practices”.

In a statement by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, the Rights group said the President has shown that he wants to deal with as many as possible the notable Nigerians who backed the national movement calling for an end to police brutality, torture and extra judicial executions even as the Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) is of the view that President Muhammadu Buhari has the mistaken but deliberately couched narrative and impression that the nation-wide anti Police brutality protests were attempts to delegitimize or achieve a regime change to sweep him away from office. This is the reason the Central government has been waging a war of attrition against the organisers of the #ENDSARS PROTESTS and the choreographed antagonistic attacks targeting these prominent Civil Rights Advocacy leaders who backed the just ended #ENDSARS PROTESTS.

HURIWA condemned the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu for his show of incompetence and for wasting public resources to engage in wasteful superiority battles even when it is clear that the Nigerian Police Force under him has become increasingly unprofessional and grossly indiscipline.

“It is a shame that rather than tender his resignation for failing to show quality leadership, the inspector general of police is busy engaging in verbal warfare with a retired military General over whether he was still in charge or not by asserting that he is in firm control of the Nigeria Police Force, saying that those who accused him of losing control of NPF are ignorant. He said this in a press statement titled ‘Workings of the NPF: IGP is in firm control’ on Tuesday.Adamu was reacting to a comment made by a retired army general, Garba Wahab, who said, “the IGP May be sitting in Abuja with the paraphernalia of office, but he has lost the control of the police force.”

HURIWA said it is evident indeed that the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu has lost his bearing just as the Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a competent senior officer as the next Inspector General of Police to try to carry out some major reforms of the near moribund Nigeria Police Force.

November 18, 2020
HURIWA to Buhari: Your Economic Policies Not Well Thought Out, Breed Hunger, Crimes And Poverty

Riding on the crest of ‘change’ and ‘next level’ mantras into his first and second tenures of his administration, President Muhammadu Buhari made ssignificantly huge body of promises to the Nigerian populace, presenting the dividends the country stands to gain through his leadership. The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy group HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has expressed disappointment that the Nigerian government is systematically driving Nigeria to unmitigated disaster, doom, instability and insecurity.

However, with an unenviable reputation as the world’s new poverty capital, about 40% (82 million people) of Nigeria’s population are living on less than 1 $US per day, according to figures from National Bureau of Statistics, it is evidently clear that the economic policies of this administration are anything but articulate, and are not well thought out just as the cabinet ministers and Directors General of ministries, Department and agencies of government are so dissonance and distant from the core economic policies of the Central government but are currently engaged in a free for all bonanza of corruption, ineptitude and crass opportunism thereby driving millions of citizens into intolerable cruelty and mass hunger. The failure of the Nigerian government to negotiate effectively with the striking University teachers who have being on strike for many Months shows how far removed from realities the ministers serving the current administration are and their high levels of incompetence.

Amidst the abysmal increases in the price of refined petroleum products and other essential goods and services the prominent civil rights advocacy group; Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has berated the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for taking actions that has left the Nigerian economy prostrate for the last five years with rising inflation, contrasting GDP, unsustainable borrowing, a dwindling value of the naira, falling industrial capacity utilisation and frightening unemployment figures.

In a statement jointly signed by the National Coordinator; Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs; Miss Zainab Yusuf, the rights group raised concerns over a barrage of issues ranging from the fuel and electricity price hike, shut down of borders and opening only for two northern businesses, poor economic planning and heavy borrowings, which have combined to inflict poverty, high crimes, kidnappings, pains and pangs of hardship on millions of citizens.

Considering the economic downtown experienced by many Nigerians in a period marked by a remarkable loss of jobs and income, owing to the severity of the global COVID-19 pandemic, HURIWA bemoaned the decision to hike the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and Electricity tariff, describing it as grossly insensitive to the realities on ground and generally an act in bad-timing.

“We are surprised that at a time other countries across the world are giving palliatives to their citizens to cushion the effect of COVID-19, Nigerians are asked to pay more for fuel and electricity. The COVID-19 situation had given Nigerians enough suffering, and hikes in electricity and fuel have reduced the purchasing power of Nigerians.

“How does the Government even expect the average citizen to survive in this country? Hike in electricity tariff and fuel price all in the space of two months. This is just pure wickedness and complete evil. The hike in fuel price practically affects the daily activities of everyone”, HURIWA lamented.

Continuing, the rights group revealed the significant relationship between the recent increases in fuel prices and economic growth in Nigeria, adding that the Nigeria economy is not developing because of the effect of fuel price hike on purchasing power, just as it said that there is significant relationship between increase in pump price of petroleum and food security, which in turn affects everything else – school fees, house rent, etc.

“Everybody appreciates the fact that when motorists pay more for fuel, the transport fare increases. This has been the case even when the increase is only marginal. In the particular case where the cost of fuel is expected to double, the increase in transport fare will be astronomical”, HURIWA noted.

Additionally, HURIWA observed that in the last five years, the price of food items has risen steadily, which has impacted disproportionately on the poor in a country that is said to be already hosting a high population of the world’s poorest citizens.

Therefore, the Rights Group stressed that considering the increasing prices of food commodities, Nigeria’s shut down of her borders and opening only for two northern businesses of Aliko Dangote and BUA Group, despite being a signatory to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) may have been considered as something done in the country’s best interest, with the intent of improving local production and agriculture, but even with the continued closure of the border and huge investments in domestic agricultural production, nothing seems to have changed substantially.

While recommending ways out of the economic nightmares to avoid imminent collapse of Nigeria and prevent snowballing of Nigeria into anarchy, violence and doom, HURIWA called on the Government to retain fuel subsidy while expediting the construction of the three proposed refineries.

“Fuel subsidy should be removed as soon as these new refineries are commissioned. The proposed rehabilitation of the existing refineries should be expedited and Government should vigorously pursue the revitalization of the railways.

“If only Nigerians had alternative to road transport, all this noise about fuel subsidy removal would not have been there and Private companies should be encouraged to start building refineries now with the assurance that subsidy would be removed before they start production”, HURIWA suggested.

Furthermore, HURIWA expressed regrets that the government could not ensure full value for the numerous Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) that where poorly and/or barely executed and the horrifying lack of interest in prosecuting public officials and private business people who have profited from the rot in the petroleum sector.

“Government should declare a state of emergency in the downstream petroleum sector; ensure that the cost of supplying of crude oil is negotiated away from prevailing international market rate and stamp out the smuggling of petroleum products out of Nigeria”.

Nonetheless, HURIWA stated that the major reason given by the government for the closure of boarder, which was to prevent smuggling of goods and illegal commercial activities are legitimate and logical concerns as Nigeria has every right to uphold her national interest above others, but has often simply overlooked infractions.

“Nigeria’s action was cowardly. It should rather be using its weight and political influence to persuade its neighbours to comply with the regional trade treaty agreed by ECOWAS. This has provisions for maintaining decent and legal businesses within neighbours’ boundaries. One such mechanism is the joint border patrol.

“Secondly, Nigeria should exercise tighter control of its borders. The government should be dealing with corruption among its security agencies, particularly Customs and Immigration. If officials did their jobs, there would be no need to close the borders. The Nigerian authorities should be purging the agencies of corrupt elements and inculcating professionalism in the agencies”, HURIWA stressed.

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