Tag: HURIWA

“Your office undermining Abba Kyaris extradition application”, HURIWA to AGF Malami

Aminu Imam

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, accused the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN); of subtle conspiracy to frustrate the extradition of embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to the United States. HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said it was a known fact that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation had requested that Kyari be tried in America for his role in an alleged Internet fraud involving notorious scammer, Ramon Abbas, a.k.a…

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HURIWA demands removal of roadblocks in South-East

Aminu Imam

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Saturday, urged the Inspector-General of Police, (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, to dismantle roadblocks mounted by Police personnel in the South-East region. HURIWA, which made the call in an issued statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, decried the increasing cases of accidents in the region as a result of the roadblocks. The statement read in part: HURIWA is pained that security agents who ought to be the first law enforcement officers are flagrantly disobeying the judgment of a law court…

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Students abductions: “Declare state of emergency in Kaduna” – HURIWA urges President Buhari

Aminu Imam

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Kaduna due to the rising cases of mass abductions and killings in the State. According to a statement issued yesterday by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA lamented the latest attack on Greenfield University, the only operational private university in the State, coming nearly a month after a similar abduction at a neighbouring Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, also in Kaduna. Deploring the breakdown of security in Kaduna, the group…

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