Siege On Dasuki’s Home: Group Raises Alarm On Human Rights Abuse

The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation has raised alarm over the threat to Nigerians’ human rights under the guise of probe by the present administration under President Buhari a former military dictator.

The group made this known while reacting to the clamp down on the residence of the former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki. It should be noted that this same Dasuki was reported to have arrested the present leader of Nigeria when he was overthrown by former military President Ibrahim Babangida in 1985.

The group said the President should realize that Nigerians have not forgotten his record with human rights abuses as a military dictator and will not fail to tackle him on that.

The group in the press statement signed by its national Coordinator Comrade Nwokoma Messiah and  Director of Publicity Amakiri Christiana said the President should carry out his change mantra without recourse to trampling on the rights of Nigerians. It said the nation has moved away from the era of militocracy and dictatorship and urged the President to do same.

The NDRO decried the arrest of some top politicians whom it described as perceived threats to his administration. “It is disheartening that the present administration is now seen to be doing something worse than what they accused the former ruling party of doing. We smell a case of victimization against top shots of the PDP” the group said in the statement.

The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation also picked holes in the anti-corruption posture of the present administration accusing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of being selective in its fight against corruption. “It is suspicious that people like Timi Sylva who has been under EFCC probe for his alleged financial impropriety and the former governor of Rivers state Rotimi who squandered the resources of Rivers state have been working free while the likes of Sule Lamido whose presidential ambition is known to all are been haunted by the Commission that has suddenly realized it has teeth to bite. We condemn their selective investigation which smacks of nothing else than to witch hunt opposition politicians. We thought we have gone past this stage when former President Obasanjo left power. We will resist such selective probes using all legal and legitimate instruments available to us as a group and as democratically minded Nigerians” the NDRO statement concluded.