The organization said it was appalling and incredulous that nearly a month after the reported kidnapping at gunpoint of the teenage girls, the Federal Government has not openly made a statement confirming or denying the widely circulated report or to even hold meetings discreetly with the parents and guardians of the abducted girls
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Besides, the groups passed a vote of confidence on the professional competence, patriotic commitment and zeal of Adoke and urged President Goodluck Jonathan not to accede to the campaign of calumny being waged by a group to discredit the nation’s chief law officer for standing by the constitutional provision and principle of rule of law and refusing to pander to the whims and caprices of political forces loyal to Oyinlola
HURIWA accused President Jonathan of looking the other way while the hierarchy of the Nigerian Police Force manipulates Commissioners of Police in Rivers State and the Federal Capital Territory to abuse the fundamental human rights to freedom of association and movement of these public office holders identified as not in support of the second term ambition of the President
HURIWA has also faulted the hierarchy of the University of Calabar for failing to invite credible accredited Non-Governmental Organizations to serve as observers in all their procurement award processes, even as it alleged that this practice violates the extant provision of the Bureau of Public Procurement Act of 2007
Bombarded by members across the country to send a Freedom of Information request to the boss of Fiscal Responsibility Commission to compel him by law to name and shame the indicted public office holder, HURIWA, through its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, on August 12, 2013 dispatched a Freedom of Information request to the chairman
The National Assembly was also tasked to immediately expunge the nebulous and controversial anti-child provision in the ongoing amendments of the 1999 Constitution on citizenship, which appear to support early child marriage as passed by the Senate
HURIWA further accused the Abuja-based Naval-run environmental task force of constituting themselves into ‘fearsome terror gang’ who go about harassing innocent teenage girls on major streets of Abuja in broad daylight in the guise of arresting ladies of easy virtues
HURIWA said denial of the constitutionally protected right to education as currently being perpetrated by the federal government by the gross and criminal failure to honor subsisting agreement with the university teachers which necessitated the incessant industrial action in public universities, amounted to mental and intellectual slavery of the Nigerian youth which should be resisted
HURIWA said pragmatic solutions to the unprecedented scale of violent crimes and terrorism in Nigeria can only be achieved through effective multi-sectorial and multi-dimensional mechanism to be worked out and collectively implemented by the Federal Government, with all relevant tiers of government, including the National Assembly, state governments and relevant stakeholders in the civil society.
Keyamo, who is Okah’s counsel in the criminal case against him in Nigeria, described the conviction of Okah by the South African court as politically motivated
This position was taken by a pro-democracy and development focused Non-Governmental Organisation, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, and the United Kingdom chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance