Human Right group, Campaign for Democracy, CD, South East Zone,
yesterday, called for the immediate release of the embattled 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 Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).
In a statement issued in Onitsha, CD
accused Buhari of cracking down on Igbo leaders at any slight provocation.
The chairman of the group, Dede
A. Uzor, CD stated that Kanu who was arrested on October 17, 2015 was
granted bail by a court of competent jurisdiction, 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 medicals.
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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