Centre for Anti-Corruption and
Open Leadership has reacted to the petition by the Socio-Economic Rights and
Accountability Project (SERAP) to Mr. Diego García-Sayán, UN Special Rapporteur
on President Muhammadu Buhari’s disobedience to court rulings and orders.
The organisation, in a petition
dated May 11, 2018 to the UN, lamented the Federal Government’s habit of
picking and choosing court judgments to obey.
SERAP cited the case of court
judgement ordering the release of the leader of the Shi’ite movement, Ibrahim
El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenatu, who have been in military detention since
December 2015.
Speaking on the recent
development, CACOL’s Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran in a statement over the
weekend said the government had no reason to disobey court judgement,
especially in the case of Shiite leader, El-Zazarky.
His statement read, “It is not
right for the Federal Government to disobey court orders even if it is a
drunken judge that delivered the judgement, it should be obeyed.
“Once a court gives a judgement,
if it is not immediately appealed and there is no stay of execution of the
judgement, there is no reason for the government to disobey it.
“They claim to be keeping
El-Zakzaky in protective custody, but if he says he does not need government’s
protection, it is uncharitable for them to continue to keep him.”
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