Having watched the abyss to which Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) as an organization daily descend and what tool it has become in the hands of politicians and schemers towards even the intent of blackmail, it is important to call it to order, let it thinks it is still a voice when social issues are front lined.
Just a few days ago, HURIWA in its usual political grandstanding being misinterpreted as activism, in a statement danced to the beat of ignorance or better put danced to the beat of her paymaster by advising the APC (political party) in Osun State and another state to stop judicial procedure in an ongoing legal tussle arising from her gubernatorial election which is still open to the Supreme Court and rallied support for the incumbent administration in the state. One wonders what the interest of HURIWA is in a legal and constitutional matter and if it would have rather wished for anarchy in the state and not a legal procedure.
One ordinarily would know that is a meddlesome interloping and can only come from a cash-and-carry civil rights organisation like HURIWA.
Of particular interest is the recent lashing and attempted blackmail of the Police Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, arising from his interview on Channels TV where he called a video circulated on Social Media credited to a popular Transport Union Leader, Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo to explain his threat pre the Gubernatorial election in Lagos state and called same a joke and better left as a joke.
For sake of clarity, what CSP Adejobi said, as could be seen in the video of the interview, is, “If MC Oluomo said it’s a joke, then let’s accept that it is a joke.” While also confirming that security has been put in place in Lagos and the entire country gives no room to electoral violence, he also expressed the readiness of the force, to deal decisively with any perpetrator of violence. So where is the cover-up for MC Oluomo, in this? The video is readily available to confirm our position.
HURIWA through its spokesperson, for what looks more like setting the Force PRO, up for an ethnic mob attack, went ahead to deliberately misrepresent what the Force PRO said and attempt to set him up against the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria.
Let it be said that CSP Muyiwa Adejobi is the spokesperson of the Police Force and not the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State where the alleged statement was made and the one who made it resident and hence does not possess the power to arrest or prosecute MC Oluomo as that can only be done by the State command of the Police force in Lagos state, even if there’s any need, at all for such.
Why then the self-styled and greatly influences HURIWA will attempt to assassinate the character of a fine officer like CSP Adejobi begs for concern.
Without sounding immodest, the Force PRO has proven over and over again since he assumed office to be a very diligent officer and has not in any way put the force into disrepute but rather enhanced the image of the force through good and proper representation and will go down in history as one of the finest police spokespeople in the country.
HURIWA though now a laughing stock and a cash-and-carry organisation should limit its trade in stock to politics which it has now engaged in and benefit from rather than dive into the very sensitive line of tribalism and blackmail.
We believe in the integrity of the police force and by the same extension, its spokesperson and will not allow an individual using the name of a group once so-referred to blackmail and speak ill of a police officer for pecuniary unlasting gains.
HURIWA should go and purge itself of the Yoga of blackmail and particularly call its spokesperson who is daily becoming a tribal bigot to order lest he erodes the little that is left of the organisation in terms of integrity.
