ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has told the Appeal Court that it is destroying the judicial arm of government for their selfish reasons by letting the federal government impugn the integrity of the court system.
The human rights group stated this while condemning the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal for even admitting the appeal filed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
HURIWA also described as the disrespectful application stay of execution against a clearly binding verdict of the Court of Appeal freeing Nnamdi Kanu, saying it was a clear breach of section 6 of the Nigerian Constitution.
The group said this in a statement signed by Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, its national coordinator.
The Rights group also expressed disappointment that rather than mount pressure on Buhari to honour his constitutional Oath of office and obey a binding judgment of a competent court of jurisdiction, the apex Igbo cultural group –Ohanaeze is going cap- in-hand to Aso Rock Villa to beg for political solution as if the courts are no longer relevant.
HURIWA further accused the Appellate court of becoming political by sending on transfer from Abuja the justices that courageously determined the Appeal by Nnamdi Kanu and quashed all charges initiated illegally by Abubakar Malami, Buhari’s Attorney General.
“We expected all right thinking Nigerians to initiate international and local advocacy campaigns for the sake of the image of Nigeria and the health and well being of the judicial arm of government to get president Buhari to obey the Appeal Court and free Nnamdi Kanu before appealing at the supreme court, some politicians and the Igbo socio-cultural respected global body – the OHANAEZE NDI IGBO is begging Buhari to release Nnamdi Kanu who is already suffering from suspected terminal health challenges allegedly contracted whilst in detention.”
HURIWA said its intervention on the matter is on the side of justice and constitutionalism and not about the Ethnicity of the detained leader of Kanu.
On a very sad note, HURIWA recalled that the three Justices that sat on the Court of Appeal panel that quashed the 15-count terrorism charge the Federal Government preferred against Kanu, have been transferred from their various divisions.
HURIWA, therefore, reminded the President of the Court of Appeal who has now decided to be a politician by witch-hunting justices of her Court for deciding a matter by Nnamdi Kanu purely on point of law and not point of AREWA SENTIMENTS, that history does not forget any act of treachery whatever and whenever it happens.