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Nigeria: Rights Community Condemns Police Invasion of Leadership
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Leadership (Abuja)
8 May 2008
Posted to the web 8 May 2008
George Agba
Human Rights group in Nigeria yesterday condemned the invasion of the corporate headquarters of LEADERSHIP.
According to the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), Mohammed is wielding the country back to the military era when authorities trampled over the rights of citizens.
National coordinator of the association, Mr. Emmanuel Onwubiko told newsmen that the attack on LEADERSHIP.
Onwubiko said, HURIWA strongly condemns the alleged invasion of the business premises of LEADERSHIP.
"It amounts to a grave violation of the entire chapter 4 of the 1999 constitution which safeguards and seek to promote the fundamental human rights of all citizens. All laws in operation in Nigeria prohibit a party in a suit pending before the court to resort to self help".
He also noted that "it amounts to 'illegal' hostage taking for police operatives to leave their area of operation and come from another territorial area like Minna to arrest persons in the FCT.
"A court in Minna cannot issue an order that you go and arrest somebody in Abuja. It also amounts to a violation of section 22 of the 1999 constitution which authorises journalists to discharge their duties freely".
Section 22 of the constitution states: "The press, radio, television and other agencies of the mass media shall at all times be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in this chapter and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the government to the people".
He further warned parties having complaints against media houses to "have the matter amicably settled through constructive dialogue or litigation", just as he advised media practitioners in Nigeria to "abide by their professional ethics and respect their social responsibilities and role as the conscience of the nation".
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LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group Limited in Abuja by armed policemen from the Niger State police command, at the instance of a former senator and Wazirin Nupe, Senator Isa Mohammed.LEADERSHIP by about 12 plain-clothe policemen from Minna is "illegal, unconstitutional, undemocratic and amounts to resorting to self help which is completely abhorrent to all known legal statutes and the provisions of the 1999 constitution".LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group by the Niger State police, not even the FCT police command.
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