HURIWA stated this in a statement on Tuesday.
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According to a press statement on Sunday signed by the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko
HURIWA said naira scarcity may also be a scam organised by the CBN, the commercial banks and ‘their POS foot-soldiers.’
The Human Right Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, is deeply concerned about the priorities and actions of the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Taoreed Lagbaja and the acting Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun over-reliance on media propaganda instead of taking comprehensive action against terrorists.
However, an Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has warned HURIWA to stop blackmailing Muslim leaders. MURIC challenged HURIWA to present its evidence if it has any instead of engaging in mudslinging.
In a press statement on Tuesday, HURIWA said that the alternative development plan, which was announced by the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, was a novel and effective approach to counter the world drug problem and other drug-related crime challenges.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned the abduction of eight members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) by gunmen in Zamfara State. The rights group acknowledged the bold efforts by the management of the NYSC to get the corpers freed but has asked that operations of the NYSC be shut down for a short duration of time so all efforts would be geared towards freeing the hostages.
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has condemned what it called the “irritating pettiness” by the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, towards his Deputy, Comrade Philip Shaibu.
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has warned political office holders in the current dispensation to check the disturbing tendencies of abuse of power and to always adhere strictly to the work ethics built on the principle of rule of law, integrity, transparency and accountability.
The Human Right Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the National Assembly to set up through a legislative framework by way of an executive bill, a body of just few independent experts to work as effective oversight platform over officers and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to stem the worrisome incidence of indiscipline and professional misconducts.
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has issued a scathing response to Garba Shehu’s recent defence of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. In a strongly worded critique, the prominent human rights organization challenged the attempt to present
The Rights group wondered why persons suspected to be kingpins of the underworld have upped their sophistication of violent attacks against the operatives of the NDLEA just as the Rights group advocated stringent penalties for such audacious crimes to serve as effective deterrent because if the drug barons know that their deviant actions of attacking NDLEA operatives have consequences, then they will think twice before embarking on such dangerous idiocy.
This is contained in a statement signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, and made available to newsmen in Owerri on Wednesday.
HURIWA said this in a statement on Tuesday calling on the President to resign to minimise the damage his “crass incompetence and gross dereliction of duty would cost the country if he stayed on till 29 May, 2023”.
According to the group, the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, which began on February 14, has endangered the security of the country with students being out of classrooms.
HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, alleged that the police were trying to cover up the suspected abduction of the lad to give an untrue impression that Lagos was safe.
The civil society organisation commended the anti-drug agency under the leadership of its Chairman Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), for declaring the suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, wanted over alleged links to drug trafficking.
The Eagle Online recalls that the FG on Wednesday accused Ortom of whipping up tribal sentiments, instigating tribal hatred in his state
Nigeria Police had issued a press release on Sunday August 22, alleging that Ms Okolie worked with the ESN as a spy to perpetrate the series of violent attacks on police operatives and public institutions, including offices of the National Electoral Commission.
The group said that Kukah presentation to the US Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs needs not to have generated controversy if not that Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari has “degenerated to a Banana Republic whereby the elected leaders of the country have transposed themselves into tyrants who are scared of the truth and who are doing everything under the sun to crush independent voices.”