Lucky Obukohwo Reporting
A group, United for Truth, Integrity and Justice Inc. (UTIJ), has called on Nigerians to prevail on president Bola Tinubu and the Department of State Services (DSS), to release the former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Godwin Emefiele from its detention.
The group also expressed its disappointment and rejection of the modus operandi of the DSS in a press statement issued by its executive director, Prince Uneke Ekwaogbu, and secretary, Hon. Musa Z. Abubakar.
The group said that arresting Emefiele, despite a subsisting court order barring his arrest, makes a mockery of the nation’s democracy. It, therefore, urged President Bolas Tinubu, well-meaning Nigerians and human rights to prevail on the DSS to release Emefiele out of respect for the court and the rule of law.
The group wants the DSS to explain where the case of terrorism and financial crime of national security magnitude that was preferred against the former CBN governor is and why he is still in detention after three courts have quashed his arrest and detention.
The group also wondered “if filling laughable charges of possession of a registered pump action, which is a self protection gun, is the reason to keep him in detention in perpetuity.”
Still wondering why the DSS is witch-hunting Emefiele, the group, demands that “the DG DSS should resign from office or be suspended by President Tinubu for persecuting Emefiele and the inability to produce evidence to back up his over six months allegation of terrorism against him.”
It maintained that “the DSS should, as a matter of urgency and natural justice, free Emefiele from its detention, and obey the rule of law.
“The DSS should also stop tainting Tinubu’s rule of law records with illegal detention of Emefiele without evidence to back the frivolous allegation so.”