NewsWe Won’t Join Campaign Of calumny Against Uduaghan – HURIWA

We Won’t Join Campaign Of calumny Against Uduaghan – HURIWA

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SAN FRANCISCO, January 31, (THEWILL) – Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a pro-democracy and non-governmental organization, has raised alarm about some politically motivated group of individuals who have approached them in frantic efforts to tarnish the public standing of the former Governor of Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, saying it won’t join.

At a media briefing, the HURIWA National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, flanked on both sides by the Nigerian Human Rights Queen (2017) Miss. Chioma Okoli and other officials confirmed to journalists that its organization has been allegedly inundated by pressure from some known political blackmailers to be enlisted in a sinister plot to stage street protest to the premises of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to attempt to hood wink the hierarchy of the anti-graft panel to begin systematic witch-hunt of the immediate past administration of Delta State.

The Rights group wondered why some persons will seek to continuously attempt to recruit registered groups that have credibility to do some sinister campaign when legally such organisations can be sued by those politically exposed persons whose well-earned good reputation as statesmen/women are being tarnished on the altar of sensational media stories.

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The Rights group said the ongoing mass demonization and character assassination of some members of the political class whose political tenures in various offices have remained untainted has created the erroneous impression that all political office holders in Nigeria are corrupt.

“This is a fallacy with far reaching negative implication for the standing in the international community of civilised nations of the Nigerian Nation-state,” the group declared.

“These evil intentioned Nigerians are exploiting the notorious fact that corruption as a major factor that contributed to the underdevelopment of Nigeria has forced the current government to focus extensively on waging anti-graft war but HURIWA warns against the deployment of crude and illegal process of mass hysteria and choreographed media trial to engage in the ongoing crusade to eradicate corruption and economic crimes.

“We urge officials of EFCC to strive to maintain high professional decorum even as they relentlessly chase after corrupt politicians. EFCC as an agency set up by law must operate within the ambit of principle of rule of law and abide by all constitutional provisions.

“We were approached by some professional political blackmailers from Delta State to make our organization available to be used as a weapon of mass politically motivated battle against the person and character of the former governor of Delta State but we declined on the ground that the allegations against Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan are not only false but are well orchestrated campaign of calumny meant to prepare the ground for the media trial of the immediate past governor.

“We also declined to participate because we know with available records that as the governor of Delta State Dr. Uduaghan carried out landmark programmes and projects that significantly improved greater respect to the Human Rights of Delta State residents. The then administration transparently handed over to the current administration.”

“As a credible Civil Society platform that has been on ground for ten years now, HURIWA meticulously monitored the immediate past administration of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and we can without any fear of contradiction assert that with the evidence at our disposal those allegations being bandied about are frivolous, unsubstantiated, malicious and lacks credibility. How on Earth could the former governor have pocketed a whooping N800 billion and was able to consistently pay salaries for eight years and implemented far reaching impactful projects for the people of Delta state?

“Our fundamental reason for not making our platform available for media trial of politically exposed persons who we know had discharged their constitutional duties creditably is because the abundance of provisions in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 that frowns against media trial of all persons.

“We use this medium to appeal to reputable groups in the organized civil society community not to allow the current economic recession to push them into making their organizations available for political witch-hunt.”

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