The New Nigeria Folks’s Occasion ( NNPP) has condemned the “continued harassment and makes an attempt to arrest the Director-Normal, Media and Publicity to the Kano State Authorities, Mallam Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa” as an affront to the rule of legislation.
The occasion expressed fear that regardless of a subsisting ex parte order of a Excessive Court docket restraining the Nigeria Police Power (NPF), males of the power have continued trying to find Dawakin-Tofa. In an announcement in Kano, the NNPP Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Ladipo Johnson, alleged that police authorities have sustained efforts to arrest the governor’s spokesman. He clarified that the “repeated makes an attempt to arrest Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa, which have additionally bordered on the attainable harassment of members of his household, have been in reference to a petition purportedly written towards him by a former Kano State Governor and Nationwide Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, or individuals performing for him.”
The NNPP spokesman decried the motion, saying it was an affront to the rule of legislation and an abuse of energy. He added that Sanusi has since been compelled into hiding as a measure to hedge towards his “illegal arrest.”
His phrases: “As most people can see, the scenario in Kano is now degenerating right into a free fall with such abuse of energy, intimidation and harassment of state authorities officers. The scenario is de facto unhealthy and unlucky. “Since there’s a court docket injunction restraining the police, additional makes an attempt to arrest Sanusi solid a horrible slur on the picture of the Nigeria Police, a tragic reminder of comparable actions and posturing concerning the regrettable energy recreation in Kano over the Emirs’ saga until date.”
“Possibly someplace alongside the way in which, the ruling occasion will notice how a lot the management of their occasion could have broken their “model”, particularly in Northern Nigeria”. NNPP known as on the Inspector-Normal of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, a famend skilled, to make sure that the Police as an establishment, resists the damaging slide into partisan politics and to restrain his males from additional harassment and intimidation of Sanusi, whom, it said, has his elementary human rights protected underneath the legislation and needs to be revered.
