From Okwe Obi, Abuja
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has told the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, to refrain from engaging in media trial against the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.
Senator Akpabio, while speaking at Senator Barinada Mpigi’s thanksgiving service in Koroma, Tai Local Government Area, Rivers State, Akpabio blamed Emefiele for the country’s economic challenges.
National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, yesterday, claimed that the utterances of the Akpabio was and attempt to usurp the jurisdiction of the courts of law.
Onwubiko, also, stated that the media persecution of Emefiele by the Senate President, represented what he called “an egregious violation of section 36 (5) of the constitution which affirmed that in the determination of his civil rights and obligations,
“36(5) Every person who is charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty”.
Emefiele is being accused of financial crimes after President Bola Tinubu removed him from his position as CBN governor in June 2023.