Yahoo Yahoo: Buhari govt jails petty thieves but accommodates rich looters – HURIWA
It lamented that while “big time politically exposed persons accused of diverting multibillion dollars public funds are granted softlanding for political bargaining chips”, young Nigerians are convicted for advanced fee fraud.
In a statement forwarded to DAILY POST by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA condemned what it termed the unconstitutional termination of the multibillion Naira alleged theft case involving former Gombe State GOVERNOR Danjuma Goje only “few days after he was blackmailed to step down for the official candidate of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for the Senate Presidency position in the person of Senator Ahmed Lawan.
The statement reads: “THERE IS NOT A SINGLE PUBLIC INTEREST PURPOSE FOR THE UNILATERAL DECISION OF THE FEDERAL ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO WAS NOT EVEN IN THE OFFICE AS AT THE TIME OF CITING THIS PROVISION OF 174 BY AN OFFICIAL OF THE JUSTICE MINISTRY TO INVOKE THE POWER OF NOLLI PROSEQUI AS ENSHRINED IN SECTION 174 OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA of 1999 .
“The presiding judge, Justice Babatunde Quadri, had while ruling on the “no-case” submission filed by Goje through his lawyers on September 14, 2018, discharged him and other defendants on 19 of the 21 counts. He held that the defendants had a case to answer on counts eight and nine and ruled that they should open their defence on May 8, 2019.
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