IHRC NEWS / OMOYELE SOWORE: PROSECUTION OR PERSECUTION? –

The record shows that the Nigerian government has an all-time disregard for court rulings granting bail to citizens. The government has to put a stop to such an evil policy as this is a significant blow to the rule of law and a gross human rights abuse. The IHRC situation room says it is important to point out that this policy is quite infamous and regrettable. This impression is from the expressions of the focal chairperson of the IHRC situation room and the IHRC Africa region HQ Secretary-General H.E Dr. Tivlumun Innocent Ahure, who described the government refusal to allow bail for Omoyele Sowore who has been granted bail as a direct diabolical disregard for human life, most callous and unfortunate thing. H.E Dr. Tivlumun Innocent Ahure elaborately said the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria cannot be allowed to advance such a policy which does not ensure the protection of human rights. Dr. Ahure highlighted the several human rights conventions Nigeria is a signatory to and affirmed that international observers would not sit back and watch the scenario but rather join the fray to raise an uproarious clamor and international outcry, because these are real excesses which President Mohammadu Buhari has to account for. The leader of the IHRC situation room has written a letter requesting for the IHRC special envoy to Nigeria to submit to the IHRC International Secretary-General in Geneva Switzerland, Dr. Saiful Dildar a detailed report of this entire travesty. This report is for forwarding to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The special envoy is to also initiate transactions with the Nigerian government in relation to procedures that are to be followed in the Omoyele Sowore’s face-off with the government in order to ensure the adherence with accepted international best practices. “Any claims being raised instead of sticking to the bail granted an accused makes the government be the oppressors and aggressors especially when the same court had earlier given an order for detaining Sowore for 45 days and it was done. This amounts to selective justice, simple and short”. Dr. Ahure concluded.