{"id":22923,"date":"2019-12-07T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22923"},"modified":"2019-12-07T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T13:48:47","slug":"rights-commission-boss-ojukwu-wants-agents-who-stormed-court-for-sowore-arrested-and-tried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22923","title":{"rendered":"Rights Commission boss, Ojukwu, wants agents who stormed court for Sowore arrested and tried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>Lambert Oparah<\/strong>, Director Corporate Affairs and External Linkages<br \/>\nThe National Human Rights Commission has called for the arrest and prosecution of all the security operatives who invaded the hollowed chambers of the Federal High Court Abuja on Friday in\u00a0 a desperate\u00a0 attempt to arrest\u00a0 Mr Omoyele Sowore and his colleague\u00a0 who are standing trial before the Court.<br \/>\nReacting to the incident which caused\u00a0 disruption in the court and left many wounded,\u00a0 Executive Secretary of the Commission Tony Ojukwu Esq cautioned that \u201cLaw enforcement officials must not be above the law .\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe National Human Rights Commission has watched with dismay the conduct of law enforcement officers in facie curie yesterday Friday 6th Dec 2019 at the Federal High court Abuja and\u00a0 reiterates it\u2019s earlier statement emphasising\u00a0 the need for law enforcement officials to understand that to qualify as law enforcement agents, they must first of all be law abiding and not be above the law. \u201d Ojukwu said.<br \/>\nAccording to the Executive Secretary, officials paid with tax payers money, cannot\u00a0 indulge in\u00a0 impunity and utter disregard for the constitution.<br \/>\n\u2018Our democracy is founded on the principle of separation of powers and all citizens including law enforcement officials must understand the implications of that and are enjoined to respect the law and the constitution in the enforcement of the law. \u2018 he said<br \/>\nAccordingly, the Commission directs all the relevant agencies of government to arrest and try all law enforcement officers involved in the desecration of the hallowed chambers of the Federal High court Abuja on Friday 6th Dec 2019 for contempt in the face of the court.<br \/>\n\u2018They should be tried and this should serve as a reminder to all law enforcement agents that they must obey the law in carrying out their law enforcement duties\u2019he added.<br \/>\nThe Commission reiterated\u00a0 that law enforcement officers\u00a0 must enforce the law within the\u00a0 ambits\u00a0 of the law.<br \/>\nImpunity by law enforcement officials cannot be indulged in our democracy because impunity uproots the very foundation of our constitution and our democracy, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By Lambert Oparah, Director Corporate Affairs and External Linkages The National Human Rights Commission has called for the arrest and prosecution of all the security operatives who invaded the hollowed chambers of the Federal High Court Abuja on Friday in\u00a0 a desperate\u00a0 attempt to arrest\u00a0 Mr Omoyele Sowore and his colleague\u00a0 who are standing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[194,305],"class_list":["post-22923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-nhrc","tag-sss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}