You Have 7 Days To Release Dasuki, Metuh,
Kanu – Campaign Group Tells Buhari
Campaign for Democracy, CD,
South East Zone, yesterday, joined other human rights bodies in the call for
the immediate release of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,
Nnamdi Kanu, the Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisah
Metuh and the former National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan,
Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).
In a statement in Onitsha,
Anambra State, CD also expressed concern that Buhari had formed the habit of
cracking down on Igbo leaders at any slight provocation.
In
the statement by its chairman in the zone, Dede A. Uzor, CD recalled that Kanu
was arrested on October 17, 2015 and a court of competent jurisdiction granted
him bail, yet Buhari refused to release him, just as he also refused to obey the
court order which granted Dasuki bail to travel abroad for his medical
check-up.
CD regretted that up till
date, the duo are still languishing in the dungeons of the Department of
Security Services, DSS, adding that Tuesday’s arrest of Metuh was viewed as a
clandestine move to silence opposition.
The statement, therefore,
gave Buhari a seven-day ultimatum within which to release the above named
individuals from detention or else CD would mobilize more than 70 million
Ndigbo, both home and in the Diaspora, to carry out a mass protest against
their continued detention.
The statement noted that CD
was not against arresting any corrupt public officers, but reminded Buhari of
the need to obey the sanctity of court orders or rulings, which he swore to
uphold, adding that it was very dangerous when such leaders like Buhari disobey
court orders.
“Buhari should tell us how
many All Progressives Congress, APC, members he has arrested for corrupt
practices or does it mean that APC members are all clean, including the former
President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who allegedly spent over $16 billion on power
sector reform without anything to show for it?”
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