HURIWA demands immediate release of police service director, Emma Ibe

A rights group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) to release with immediate effect the Director of Finance and administration of the Police Service Commission Chief Emmanuel Ibe detained since two weeks based on unsubstantiated petition from the Special Assistant on prosecution to the President Mr. Okono Obono Obla.

HURIWA accused Mr. Obla of misusing his office to engage in proxy fights for his relation working in the Police Service Commission who have had a running battle with the arbitrarily detained director of finance and administration over the control of the police staff cooperative Society which reportedly secured huge landed assets from the Abuja political authorities for the use of members.

The rights group in a statement on Tuesday by the national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, told the EFCC to hands off the matter which is already a subject of a subsisting petition before the office of the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbanjo unless the acting Chairman of EFCC has no respect for the high office of His Excellency the Acting President.

The civil rights group said the matter is also a subject matter of several pending cases and therefore wondered why the EFCC is nosing into this sort of matter that at best is related to civil matter.

HURIWA accused the presidential aide of masquerading about as the chief law officer of the nation making use of letter headed papers of the federal Attorney General and Minister of Justice to allegedly harass unsuspecting members of the public including top public service officials whom he categorized as his personal enemies.

HURIWA also included the petition sent to the Acting President by the detained Director of Finance and administration of PSC Chief Emma Ibe un his capacity as Chairman of the staff cooperative multipurpose society and the general secretary of the cooperative society Mr. Obinna Malokwu titled a ‘Petition/Compliant Against Abuse Of Office, Impersonation, Nepotism And Intimidation Of Members Of The Excutive Committee Of The Police Service Commission Staff Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited By Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, Special Assitant To The President On Prosecution: An Urgent Call To Save-Our Soul.’