Kanu’s Prosecution: HURIWA Blasts Soludo, Mbah For Organising Fanfare For Tinubu

A Civil Rights Advocacy group- Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has condemned South-East governors of Enugu and Anambra states for organising politically charged celebratory events with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu even when the president is behind the continuation of the detention and prosecution of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

HURIWA noted that Governor Peter Mba of Enugu State organised a Kangaroo event to commission some of his administration’s ‘projects’ while the Chief celebrant was President Tinubu just as the Anambra State governor is currently hosting President Tinubu in an atmosphere of pomp and pageantry.

A statement by Emmanuel Onwubiko, National coordinator of HURIWA, stated that during the visit of President Tinubu to Enugu state, Governor Mbah did not for once mentioned the developmental challenges confronting Ndigbo particularly the critical issues of the unfair detention and wrongful persecution of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the loud marginalization of Ndigbo by Tinubu from the key appointments and national infrastructures for the citizens, but was busy promoting his self-centred political agenda using the resources of the good people of Enugu state.

Onwubiko also said that organising such elaborate celebratory events for the President who persistently failed to listen to even the governors and political gladiators of South East to end the unjust incarceration and trial before the Federal High Court for treason and terrorism charges of Kanu, showed that both the Anambra and Enugu states governors are insensitive about the situations of things in the South-East and the crippling effects of the insecurity generated by the unjust arrest, prolonged detention and trial of Kanu.

HURIWA further said; “We are not against the President of Nigeria embarking on states visitations to any part of Nigeria, but what we think that is wrong about the extensive celebratory atmospherics generated in the media by the Anambra and the Enugu states governors about the visits of the President and the fact that nothing is ever mentioned about the heightened insecurity in the South-East region.

“And these governors who organise these politically motivated commissioning ceremonies in which President Tinubu is chief celebrant are doing these publicly funded events to boost their selfish political agenda and not to advance the collective interests of Ndigbo which was why Chukwuma Soludo had the temerity to assert that releasing Nnamdi Kanu wouldn’t reduce insecurity in the South-East.

“These governors are definitely anti-Igbo and anti-people of the South-East region. Unlike governors of either the South West or North West of the country who put the interests of their regions at the forefront of their negotiations with the centre or President Tinubu, these South East governors care only about their selfish political agenda. This is tragic,” it said.

HURIWA therefore charged the South-East leaders to be more sensitive to the needs of the Igbo region and the collective interests of the people for inclusion and protection of the fundamental values and human rights of the Igbo people as equal citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The rights group also urged the South-East governors to stop promoting their selfish political agenda, endorsement of the persecution of Kanu and the exclusion of Igbos from important government positions as well as the denial of Igboland of key national infrastructures.