Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has
faulted the declaration to run for the office of President by the
Transportation minister Mr. Chibuike Amaechi.
HURIWA wondered who advised the minister to take such a
decision at a time the nation was still mourning those unlucky train passengers
killed by terrorists in Kaduna on their way from Abuja.
The group also reminded the minister that nearly two hundred
passengers are yet to be accounted for while he was busy organising an
elaborate political ceremony to announce his intention to contest for office of
president.
“This is shameful and heartless to put it mildly,” HURIWA
said in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko and
made available on Sunday.
The human rights advocacy group thinks the timing of
Amaechi’s declaration was wrong.
Amaechi’s declaration was witnessed by All Progressives
Congress bigwigs including former national chairman Adams Osiomhole, Plateau
State Governor Simon Lalong, Senator Ali Ndume, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume and
Idris Wase.
HURIWA, however, said “The minister did not show enough
remorse about the massive official negligence that occasioned the killings of
scores of train passengers just as it amounted to dancing on the graves of
those innocent souls killed by North-West terrorists.
“It was wrong for the Transportation Minister to be seen
using public facilities to dance around and then announce that he will run for
office of the president even when train passengers numbering over 200 are at
the risks of being killed by the terrorists who took them off the publicly
owned train to the forests only because the Federal Government has abdicated
her constitutional duty of protection of lives and property of citizens.”
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