h the recent case of the gruesome killings of five members of both the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Bendeghe Ekiem community, Etung Local Government Area of the State.
HURIWA said it has watched with considerable shock and trepidation since over the last couple of months that “this incident occurred to see how the state government will handle this and similar other clashes in the State but asserted that from all indications, it would seem that the State Government has adopted a politically motivated approaches towards finding out the exact circumstances that occasioned the conflict.
“As committed patriots, we will approach the National Human Rights commission to bring to their notice the ugly scenarios of the unconstitutional decision of the government of Cross Rivers State to use the sad incidence in Etung Local government Area Council to witchhunt the perceived political opponent of the Governor only because there is the perception in the governor’s camp that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration may consider on merits the person to appoint as the ministerial...
“As an organisation that has worked for decade plus some years we can confidently state that the greatest act of injustice that happens often in the states of the Federation is the tendencies of the governors to see themselves as demi-gods of their territory and they manifests the ugly attributes of harassing or intimidating any independent or dissenting voice that does not believe in the same political ideology as some of these governors who think they are Emperors who are above the laws.