The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has canvassed the immediate arrest and interrogation of the Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly matters to President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Ita Enang, for allegedly falsifying the proposed Federal Budget of 2016 presented to the Senate of the Federal Republic.
In a statement jointly signed by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA said any attempt to sweep under the carpets the allegations of such a monumental magnitude of alleged theft of the 2016 budget would amount to an unmitigated impunity and would signpost the total abandonment by the National policing institution of its constitutional duty which is an inevitable prelude to the breakdown of law and order.
The group said the lesson to be learnt by the inaction of the law enforcement agencies to the emerging accusations on the theft of the 2016 budget and its replacement with a fake edition is that the international community would view Nigerian government as a band of gangsters who give no qualms about reported breach of the law committed by high profile federal government officials linked to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which is a very dangerous precedence.
“It is in the self enlightened interest of President Muhammadu Buhari that any of his officials suspected of masterminding this horrendous national shame of theft of the original version of the 2016 budget are suspended from official duties until such a person or persons could purge himself or themselves of such damaging and extensively embarrassing national odium and/or is discharged and acquitted of such charges. There is no amount of public relations damage limitation strategy that can clean up this image of a Presidency that tolerate misdemeanour if no action or measures are adopted to remedy this abysmal slap on our international image as a constitutional democracy. Let all the Presidency officials implicated or fingered in this grandiose show of shame be brought to book,” HURIWA said.
