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The Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’Foundation (HURIDE) and Campaign for Democracy CD South East Zone has called on the Governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, to use this momentous occasion of his celebration of three years in office to grant amnesty to three native doctors now under the detention of the State Government.
The trio of the native doctors, according to HURIDE, are: Akwa Okuko Tiwara Aki in Oba, Eke Hit from Okija, and Onyeze Jesus from Nkpor.
In the joint statement signed by the Executive Director of the Human Rights body, CD South East Zonal Chairman Dede Uzor A.Uzor, the groups said he should use their release as a gift to their families in this season and on the occasion of 3 years in office.
The trio were arrested in connection with “spurious and obnoxious social media instigation on our youths” which painted a very bad image for the society.
They said it encouraged ostentatious lifestyle and crime, making our youths to believe that hard work doesn’t pay unless you engaged in unwholesome criminal activities like okeite or Awale, yahoo plus among other false lifestyles.
The group said their activities promoted serious insecurity and tension in the state with teeming young people turning to such criminal and outlandish lifestyles.
“But since their arrest, we believe they have learnt a big lesson.
“Gov Soludo should make them sign an undertaking with the hope of discontinuing such crude, unethical, and diabolical activities in line with the extant laws of the State”, they appealed to the Governor.
“HURIDE said Governor Soludo should grant amnesty to them in the spirit of this successful celebration of three years in office, saying that he has done so much to improve the lives of citizens of the State. We particularly praise Governor Chukwuma Soludo for his revolution in Okpoko in Ogbaru Local Government Area, Okpoko has been revolutionalized into a modern City, team of Human rights visited Okpoko for the first time last week but was very surprised because of the level of development in that community, we congratulate the governor for this populous good work.
“Governor Soludo should allow them to go home and sin no more. After all, to err is human, and to forgive is divine.
Some of them have spent over two months in detention.
“We plead that the governor should review their cases and allow them to go home” the groups urged Governor Soludo.
