The Human Rights Writers
Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has rebuked the Minister of Information and
Culture, Lai Mohammed, for saying some religious leaders are silently trying to
remove President Muhammadu Buhari from power.
HURIWA accused Mohammed of using
propaganda to demonize the Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rt. Rev.
Mathew Hassan Kukah over his latest article.
The frontline activist group said
the Minister should shut up if he can’t read and understand the simple essay
written by Kukah.
In his article, the clergyman had
on December 25th 2020, lamented the state of nepotism under President Muhammadu
Buhari administration.
However, HURIWA’s National
Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko and the group’s National Media Affairs Director,
Miss Zainab Yusuf, said it was baffling that Mohammed could misinterpret
Kukah’s write up to mean he wants Buhari ousted.
The rights group insisted that
the Buhari-led government was characterized by nepotism.
According to HURIWA, Kukah only
pointed out the obvious that “President Muhammadu Buhari has consistently and
continuously unleashed a divisive and scotch earth apartheid policies of divide
and rule, nepotism and religious cum ethnic chauvinism and bigotry in all his
appointments especially to top internal security Architectures including the
recent promotions in the Nigerian Police Force in which the North got the
significant percentage of all the promoted top senior police officers even when
the Igbo speaking South East of Nigeria was allotted just one top position.”
The group lamented that only
Northern Muslims were appointed to head the country’s security architectures.
HURIWA added: “The entire
internal SECURITY architectures are dominated by persons from one section of
the Country- Hausa/Fulani Moslem North to the exclusion of all others which
offends the relevant sections of the Constitution that speak to the issue of
federal character Principle as provided for in the Constitution and also
offends Section 42(1) which speaks to the issue of discrimination on the bases
of tribe, religion or political affiliations.
“Rather than read the message in
the essay and reflect deeply on ways the current administration will amend its
ways and stop the violent defecation on the sanctity of the Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 as amended, the very loquacious Lai
Mohammed chose half baked propaganda and extreme innuendos to seek to demonize
the respected Clergy who is one of the few lovers of Constitutional democracy
and modern day Nigeria that should work to uplift the welfare and protect the
sanctity of the fundamental human rights and most especially the RIGHT TO LIFE
as espoused in Chapter 4 of the Constitution and most particularly in Section
33(1).”
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