A pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Association of Nigeria (HURRIWA), has faulted the explanation offered by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami for failing to arrest the Arewa Youth that served a quit notice on Igbo in northern states to leave by October 1, 2017.
HURRIWA has also condemned Malami for ignoring the call by the United Nations to arrest the Arewa Youth and rushing back to the Federal High court to seek the revocation of the bail granted Mr. Nnamdi Kanu who had spent two years in prison before being granted very stringent bail.
"We call on all well-meaning Nigerians to reject the illegal and biased decision of the AGF to launch a manhunt against IPOB even when he completely refused to do his job in the public interest. What is the agenda of the AGF, if we may ask? As Aristotle would say, law is order, and good law is good order. The AGF in the person of Abubakar Malami must not be allowed to dance around and refuse deliberately to enforce the provisions of the constitution equitably, transparently and openly without exhibiting the mundane attitudes of a biased Northern irredentist,” the group said.
The rights group said the reported excuse of security reasons offered by the chief law officer of the President Muhammadu Buhari's administration for not arresting the northern youth whose illegal anti- Igbo quit notice precipitated a pro-genocidal anti-Igbo Song in Hausa language, has exposed the current administration as that which is systematically executing a pro-North agenda as against the national security interest of Nigeria.
HURIWA also threw its weight behind the recent criticism of Malami made by Ohaneze Ndigbo, which rightly tasked the minister to abide by his oath of office and stop pandering to the whims and caprices of the northern regional interest as against national security interest of Nigeria.
HURIWA said: "We hereby affirm our total support to the clamour around the World including the United Nations on the President Muhammadu Buhari's administration to arrest and prosecute the members of the Arewa youth coalition for issuing threats against a section of Nigerians living in the 19 Northern States beore October 1, 2017.”
“We are shocked and disappointed with current holder of the office of the Federal Attorney General who rather than engage in meticulous introspection with a view to correcting his ethical and constitutional missteps has dugged deeper and further into deliberate error and calculated attempts to undermine the sanctity of the Nigerian Constitution and has unfortunately embarked on wholly thoughtless verbal defence of the treasonable and criminal conducts of the Northern Youth and the serial diatribes which were spewed out by the characters that masquerade around as Northern elders.
" We condemn these northern elders whose support overtly or covertly for the atrocious quit notice of their youth remains a potent threat to national unity and security,” HURRIWA explained.
The rights group also expressed consternation that President Buhari upon his return from over 100 days medical tourism in UK has decided to lunch an unnecessary manhunt and to ask the armed forces to crush the unarmed and totally peaceful campaigners of self determination of the South East of Nigeria known as Indigenous peoples of Biafra(IPOB) but has failed to order the arrest and prosecution of the Arewa youth coalition members who threatened national security by their widely reported anti-Igbo quit notice.
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