Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of targeting the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, because of his intentions to run for president.
HURIWA accused the commission of using soo much manpower and resources chasing shadows over a political agenda of tarnishing the image of the senator.
In a statement signed by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko he said; “The latest application made by the EFCC praying the Abuja division of the Federal High Court to transfer the fresh trial of former Abia State governor over alleged N 7.1 billion fraud to Lagos State smacks of desperate forum shopping by an agency that is so much in a dead hurry to politically harass the chief whip of the senate to quit his presidential aspiration in favour of the political Godfather of some powerful forces embedded within the hierarchy of the EFCC”.
“We in the civil Rights Community hereby condemns the hierarchy of the EFCC for the undue interest and desperation to terminate the political rise of a phenomenal political leader who had previously been cleared by the nation’s apex court of having anything to do with this politically coordinated and calculated persecution to rubbish the presidential ambition of the most prospective candidate of Igbo origin,” HURIWA said.
HURIWA expressed concern over the rate at which the commission is bent on prosecuting the former governor, twice over the same case which had been quashed by the Supreme Court.
