This is contained in a statement issued in Ibadan on Tuesday by Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to the state Governor Seyi Makinde.
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In a statement on Wednesday by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organization said: “Nigeria’s security agents and state governors should also immediately stop the nationwide campaign of arbitrary arrests against journalists, activists and protesters.
Lagos State chapter of Committee for the Defence of Human Rights has urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to address controversies over the weekly environmental sanitation held in markets in the state on Thursdays.
Alex Omotehinse, Chairman of CDHR, Lagos State chapter, made the call in a statement on Sunday in Lagos.
Omotehinse said the Governor should be cautioned on the new schedule of Executive Order on traffic offences leading to penalties such as impounding of vehicles and imprisonment of offenders among others.
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights on Friday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for assenting to the new minimum wage of N30,000 for Nigerian workers.
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights has urged Ebonyi Government to beef up security ahead of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board examination in the state.
A constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), on Saturday urged legal practitioners to step up pro bono legal services to poor litigants.
Olumuyiwa Kushimo, CDHR Spokesman, in Lagos on Friday dissociated the group from the purported endorsement of Sanwo-Olu by a group of Civil Society Organisations in the state.
The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDHR) on Monday urged the Federal and Lagos State Governments to investigate and account for the identities of the helicopter and strange plane which flew low over the collapsed building at Synagogue church four times within 24 minutes.