A pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation, Human
Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Wednesday strongly condemned
the armed invasion of the Senate chambers and the theft of the mace by hoodlums.
Describing the attack as a dangerous precedent and
a deadly on a key institution of constitutional democracy, the group accused
the executive arm of government that controls the security forces of collusion
and conspiracy in the “disgraceful episode at the Senate of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.”
HURIWA has also called for the immediate
convocation of a judicial commission of inquiry to be drawn entirely from the
Federal Judicial Service Commission to be headed by a serving judge of the
Supreme Court to investigate the invasion and make recommendation on how to
safeguards the integrity and honour of the country's constitutional democracy
in the face of the attack on a key component of governmental powers.
The group, in a statement by its National Coordinator,
Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, further
called for the arrest of the sponsors of the invasion and the attackers and be prosecuted
for treason.
According to the statement, “The criminal act of
violence and depravity visited on the National Assembly by armed goons
suspected to have been brought by a suspended Senator Omo – Agege must not be
allowed to go unpunished. The criminal and shameful act is truly an attempt to
overthrow the legitimately constituted authority of the legislative arm of
government.
“There is no doubt that the invasion of the Senate
by the unruly mob is not just a slap on the integrity of the legislature, but
has brought global scorn on Nigeria coupled with the general state of
insecurity and coordinated killings of innocent citizens by armed Fulani
herdsmen.
“We therefore call on President Muhammadu Buhari to
take measures to sanction or sack all the heads of the security forces who have
shown a high level of professional incompetence because clearly, the state of
insecurity has expanded even as the attack on the senate is a further proof
that the president may have run out of useful ideas on how to protect lives and
property of Nigerians.”
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