A pro-democracy group, Conscience Nigeria has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop harassing Nigerians with the country’s secret police, Department of State Security (DSS).
President Muhammadu Buhari
This is coming following the recent siege on the home of former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki and the current arrest of the immediate past Chief Security Officer of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Obua.
The group, in a statement signed by it Executive Director, Tosin Adeyanju, and made available to NAIJ on Sunday evening said although it commend the anti-corruption drive of the present administration, the administration “must not lose sleep about the fundamental tenets of democracy and its guiding principle.”
It said some actions taken by the Buhari led government could lead the nation back to the dark days of dictatorship and may truncate the democracy Nigerians enjoy today.
“Three actions of the present government led us to this conclusion that if care is not taking rights and privileges of Nigerians will not be respected under this dispensation” it said.
“The other day it was Marilyn Oga, the spokesperson of DSS that was being hounded for doing her work under the past administration and the recent one that cause for alarm is the total intimidation, persecution and Gestapo style of the DSS in arresting the immediate past National Security Adviser Col Dansuki(RTD) and the present detention of the immediate past Chief Security Officer of former President Goodluck Jonathan Mr Obua.
“If we could recall that during your last coming as President, this scenario took place and we are all witnesses to how that government ended. It is due to this fact that we urgently call for a stop to this illegal detention and harassment of citizens by DSS that have not been found culpable of this lies bandied around in a competent court of law but just because they serve their nation under a man that organized the best election in the history of this nation.
“We will complement the administration drive towards the anti-corruption fight so long is not politically motivated as we see it today if our democracy must survive. Our democracy is on trial now and you must do everything possible to make all Nigeria feel the sense of belonging and not to be seen to be acting a script.
Just few hours ago, a civil rights group, Vanguards of Nigeria’s Democracy,alleged that Buhari plans to “investigate, malign and imprison” Jonathan on fabricated charges.
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