OUR REPORTER
"The persistent penchant by the hierarchy of the Department
for State Security Services (DSS) to flagrantly disrespect binding orders of
competent Courts of Jurisdiction in Nigeria is a sinister plot by the armed
security agency to imperil democracy and pave way for military type
dictatorship. Going by recent unpleasant record of total dishonor and
disrespect of the constitutionally guaranteed judicial powers of Courts of
Nigeria and the pattern of illegally using psychological and physical torture
on detainees of high political values, the current management of DSS are surely
on a dangerous highway of perfidy with intents to imperil our current gains at
enthroning democracy and rule of law ".
This was the
conclusion drawn by a Pro-Democracy Non
Governmental organization- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA
) in reaction to the serial failure and obstinate refusal by the DSS to release Mr. Nnamdi Kanu from the dungeon even after he was last Thursday
freed by the Federal High Court, Abuja
Division which aptly described as illegal
the continuous detention under dehumanizing condition by DSS of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu since over three months after he was picked up on
his return from the United Kingdom where he is based and where the Radio Biafra
operates from. HURIWA said the rumor
making rounds that DSS plans to
rearraign Mr. Nnamdi Kanu for
another framed up charges of committing treason is in itself a treasonable
felony on the part of DG of DSS because to cumulatively violate
court orders and turn back to institute separate matter against a citizen who
has previously been freed amounts to high treason and an attempt to destroy
democracy in Nigeria which must be punished if Nigeria is to end the vicious
circle of impunity.
HURIWA said the President who has sworn an oath of office to abide with
the provisions of the Constitution can be impeached for looking the other way
whilst security officials he picked and appointed into high offices wantonly
violate extant and substantive binding orders of Courts just as HURIWA reminded President Muhammadu Buhari
that in Nigeria the Court is the institution that legitimately exercises the
judicial powers of the federation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The group
has therefore warned President Muhammadu Buhari to thread cautiously in his
current pastime of permitting armed security officials to openly and
persistently disobey court orders which are not favorable to the Presidency.
"Mr. President should be Careful the way he rides on the back of the Tiger
in jubilant mood because the Tiger may not always remain loyal and subservient
all of the time with the man riding on top of his back just as the rider could
easily become easy prey to the hungry Tiger ".
In a
statement signed jointly by the National
Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media affairs Director
Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA said the Department of State Service is in gross
breach of the law by acting ultra vires in keeping back in the cell Mr. Nnamdi
Kanu who by the express judicial Order of the Federal High Court ought and must
be released IMMEDIATELY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY. The attitudes of
the DSS is primitive, unlawful,
unconstitutional, primitive and totally
reprehensible and therefore stands absolutely condemned.
"Does
the Director General of the Department for State Security Services require
another professional training (having cone from a rustic post retirement
background before he was resurrected by his kinsman President Muhammadu Buhari)
to know that under the constitution which is THE SUPREME LAW OF NIGERIA the
security agency must comply with binding court orders and can't pick and choose
which of the Court orders to enforce? This unconstitutional conduct of the DG
of DSS must be condemned by all and sundry and the National Assembly must
immediately ask President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss without further delay the
Katsina born DG of DSS Alhaji Lawal Musa
Daura for wantonly disobeying court injunctive and mandatory orders
and for seeking actively to undermine the Rule of Law and Constitutional
democracy. We wholeheartedly call on the Nigerian Bar Association; the Chief
Justice of the Federation of Nigeria and the organized and not yet contaminated
and politicized Pro -Democracy and civil society community to unanimously
condemn the Director General of the Department for State Security Services for
his notorious penchant and his self destructive attributes to flagrantly deploy
military tactics to deal with perceived political opponents of his paymaster
and voices of dissent. The DSS must
comply with the court order and release Nnamdi Kanu unless the hierarchy is on
a national suicide mission of destroying Nigeria's democracy to pave way for
the emergence of a totalitarian dictator similar to the Burundian or Rwandan
anti democracy models".
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