{"id":19331,"date":"2013-11-12T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=19331"},"modified":"2013-11-13T11:58:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T10:58:38","slug":"nigeria-president-jonathan-must-publicly-instruct-the-police-to-stop-attacks-against-anti-corruption-campaigners-serap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/pointblanknews-investigations\/nigeria-president-jonathan-must-publicly-instruct-the-police-to-stop-attacks-against-anti-corruption-campaigners-serap\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: President Jonathan Must Publicly Instruct The Police To Stop Attacks Against Anti-corruption Campaigners-SERAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;\">Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) today appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to \u201curgently instruct the police authorities to stop increasing level of attacks against anti-corruption and human rights campaigners.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;\" \/><span style=\"display: inline; color: #333333; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;\"><br \/>\nThe appeal was made against the backdrop of reports that a detachment of heavily armed Nigerian Policemen were today sent to seal the off the NICON Luxury Hotel venue of a program by the Anti-Corruption Network. The event tagged &#8220;Colloquium On Freedom Of information Act 2011, was scheduled to be addressed by FOIA experts and anti-corruption activist from Europe, USA and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement today signed by the group executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organization said that, \u201cThose brave enough to stand up against corruption and human rights abuse are coming under increasing attack. Unfortunately, next to nothing is done by this government to protect them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group said that, \u201cthe president must make clear that it is the responsibility of the government to protect the right to speak out about human rights abuses and that it is proper and legal for citizens to express opinions and concerns about their own government\u2019s human rights and anticorruption records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, \u201cVoicing opinions on issues of national importance \u2013 whether human rights conditions or anticorruption issues \u2013 is a critical part of a democratic society and a right that should be fully protected by the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Standing by and doing nothing while anticorruption and human rights defenders are constantly targeted by the police amounts to a breach of the country\u2019s constitution and international human rights and anticorruption obligations and commitments, and an affront to the rule of law. The government must act fast to stop this disturbing trend, and address the impunity of perpetrators,\u201d the group stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, \u201cthe government\u2019s expressed commitment to combat corruption will mean little if it cannot allow citizens to freely express themselves about the conduct of their own government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group therefore called \u201con President Jonathan to order immediate investigation of all attacks against human rights and anti-corruption defenders and bring to justice those suspected to be responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Signed<\/p>\n<p>Adetokunbo Mumuni<br \/>\nSERAP executive director<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) today appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to \u201curgently instruct the police authorities to stop increasing level of attacks against anti-corruption and human rights campaigners.\u201d&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pointblanknews-investigations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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