The
foremost civil Rights advocacy group- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF
NIGERIA (HURIWA) has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
to stop forthwith the insidious and toxic media PROPAGANDA and campaign of
calumny/character assassination against the character of the Kaduna born human
rights activist and immediate past Senator that represented Kaduna Central
Senatorial Senator SHEHU SANI and release him forthwith. HURIWA said the
tactics of EFCC in waging lawless media PROPAGANDA against SHEHU SANI to
satisfy some powerful forces in the Presidential palace and try to destroy the
public reputation of the fiery civil Rights campaigner SHEHU SANI by hook or by
crook will adversely diminish constitutional democracy and the international
image of Nigeria as a nation whereby BRUTE FORCE AND FALSEHOOD are employed to
weaken political opposition to the central government just as the Rights group
said these tactics of EFCC are same as what Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
adopted in his FASCISM ideology in the post-World war Italian near self
-destructive politics.
HURIWA
said the arbitrary detention for nearly a Month of SHEHU SANI following
allegations of names dropping and fraud based on the account of one man Alhaji
Sani Dauda of ASD motors Kaduna and the ceaseless bombardment through the media
of mass communication by the official and non-official channels of the EFCC
aimed at forcing a predetermined outcome in the event that the matter between
Senator SHEHU SANI and Alhaji Sani Dauda is charged to the Competent Court of
law goes to show that the ANTI-GRAFT agency may be truly on a voyage of
political witch hunt against the fervent critic of President Muhammadu
Buhari. "This atrocious misuse of
state powers by EFCC must be resisted by right minded and right thinking
citizens. We must reject FASCISM and All underground attempts to destroy
constitutional democracy. We have a
choice between speaking out to power to correct the anomalies of holders of
temporary political power or remain silent and become slaves in
perpetuity".
HURIWA
lamented that at a time that most Nigerians are even losing confidence in the
institutions of anti-graft campaigns due to political manipulations by the
Presidency as instruments of political vendetta against credible political
adversaries of President Muhammadu Buhari, it is rather unfortunate and a
burden on the soul of the hierarchy of the anti-corruption institutions to
steer the anti-corruption crusades away from the notoriety of being only the
instruments of attacks targeting only political opponents of All Progressives
Congress BUHARI just as the Rights group
said the citizens of Nigeria who are the real victims of the gargantuan and
monumental upsurge in massive heist of public fund by current political office
holders of all political persuasions are of the opinion that the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Allied
offences commission should go after these giant killers of Nigeria's economy in
government offices and avoid the unnecessary distractions of going after
persons considered as credible opposition voices such as Senator SHEHU SANI.
HURIWA
CONDEMNS the latest round of media propaganda against Senator SHEHU SANI in
which the EFCC attempted to hoodwink the undiscerning members of the public
that Senator SHEHU SANI was guilty as alleged by just one man named Alhaji Sani
Dauda based on hearsay evidence even before any form of evidence generated by
the anti-corruption agency is tested by the Court yet against all legal and
ethical conventions the EFCC has already
conjured HASTY audio-generated evidence which it has already planted in the
media to try to compel the Court of competent jurisdiction to fall under the
paperweight of the jaundiced pieces of tissues of media propaganda to reach a
predetermined conclusion against SENATOR SHEHU SANI. "It is our considered
position as patriots that this Nigerian Citizen Senator SHEHU SANI be freed
immediately and if the EFCC has good enough evidence to charge him to court let
it do so immediately. The EFCC is
testing the might of the organized civil Rights bodies in Nigeria to pour out
on the streets and demonstrate against this harassment and arbitrary arrests
and illegal detention of respected Senior citizen who almost lost his precious
life fighting for democracy. How is EFCC trying by all means to reduce him
SHEHU SANI to a mere petty criminal
based only on hearsay evidence of one man who is reportedly uneducated and allegedly
cannot even on his own write down his statements without being dictated to. The
EFCC should take the matter to court or free Senator SHEHU SANI with heavy
financial compensation for the wanton breach of his fundamental rights to
freedom from arbitrary arrests and illegal detention".
HURIWA
is aware of the robust denial to the media propaganda against Senator SHEHU
SANI by EFCC. The Senator has already itemized what he calls FACTS ABOUT THE
AUDIO TAPE ASD/EFCC CONFRONTED SHEHU SANI WITH and stated as follows in a
communication already in the media space: 1. the
audio was in Hausa language.
2. The audio was cut and join conversation to
malign the senator.
3. There was nowhere the audio indicated that
Senator Shehu Sani was given money.
4. The $25,000 in the tape was the amount of
money Senator Shehu Sani paid for a Peugeot 508 of which profoma invoice was
given as evidence to the EFCC
5. The tape borders on Shehu Sani;
- Calling on ASD to support his political
ambition
- Telling the audience the political
persecution he was facing under Elrufai
- How hired assassins were sent after
Shehu Sani
- How Shehu Sani intends to go for medical
surgery in Germany
- Shehu Sani wooing ASD to abandon his
other political choices and support Shehu Sani
- In the audio, it was Shehu Sani who was
making statement to give ASD money to purchase a car at his shop and was never
for bribe
6. The audio was a disjointed piece of
manipulated voices composed and arraigned to achieve their desired goals.
7. Almost 70% of the content of the audio has
been tampered with and nowhere in the audio it was proved that Shehu Sani was
given money to bribe the CJN or EFCC officials
8. We shall release our full version of all
the conversation when the matter goes to court.
9. The EFCC/accuser audio is a duet of
misleading and misinforming rhythm and conversation
10. We reject the EFCC Hausa recording studio
work of fiction.
HURIWA
is deeply worried that the EFCC is reducing Nigeria to a Banana republic by the
show of crudity and primitive exercise of arbitrary powers against Senator
SHEHU SANI only because he constantly criticizes President Muhammadu Buhari for
his failings in office since the last five years.
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