HURIDE after its crucial national executive meeting in Abuja, called for the immediate arraignment of the soldiers directly and remotely involved in the murder of the Policemen on national assignment.
The chairman of Board of Trustees (BoT), HURIDE, Dede Uzor A.Uzor, who spoke to newsmen in FCT in Abuja said we condemned in an unmistakable term the despicable murder by Nigerian Army of innocent Nigerian citizens in an official national assignment.
The group said the murder represented the inexplicable hatred of the Nigerian Army against the Police and the citizens of Nigeriia
They said " it is sad that such a broad day murder will happen 59 years after our independent.
This cannot happen in a sane democratic environment, where rule of law and respect for human dignity are practised and observed.
Recently, we witnessed where the Army killed an urnarmed Police and some defenseless Nigerians.
Information at our disposal said the Captain who ordered the killing of the those officers has been a beneficiary of kidnapping proceeds" he said.
The group demanded that all the soldiers and officers directly and remotely involved in the gruesome killing should be handed over for prosecution to serve as a deterrent to others.
"The only way the President can show that he is serious in addressing this dastardly act was to sack COAS,emphasising that it was the only way Nigerians will take him serious and show he is on top of the situation.
They flayed the directive by the Presidency for Defence Headquarters to investigate the matter, saying they don't have confidence that the Defence Headquarters can be a judge in its own case.
"The Federal Government should set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to be headed by a Judge, with the representatives of credible rights groups as members.
The Army cannot be a judge in it's own case, where they are the accused. It is an aberation" the group said.
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Thank you