Police asked to charge Naira Marley to court or free him

 The Police and Lagos state police command have been asked to either charge musician, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, to court if he has any case to answer regarding the death of Nigerian singer, Mohbad, or free him unconditionally.

Civil society organisation- Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), made the call in a statement on Sunday.

The group carpeted the police for violation of the constitutional rights of some detainees arbitrarily arrested and thrown into cells without trial.

HURIWA, in the statement made available to  News Agency by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, said that under no circumstances should law enforcement authorities work with unsubstantiated tissues of gossip but must base their actions on facts and the positions of the Nigerian laws.

HURIWA condemns the security agencies such as the Department of State Services (DSS), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the most notorious of these unprofessional security bodies-the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for their penchant to pick up Nigerians and throw them into their detention facilities indefinitely with no regards to the clear pronouncements of the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution of 1999 as amended,” the statement said.

HURIWA stated that the detention of such top profile citizens such as Abdulrasheed Bawa, erstwhile EFCC’s Chairman, Godwin Emefiele the erstwhile CBN governor by the DSS, who was later transfered to the EFCC which subsequently detained him without charge, amount to violations of the constitutional provisions on personal liberty.

The rghts group noted that hundreds of thousands of Nigerian detainees are languishing in police detention facilities across the country for long periods of time without being charged officially for any crimes

HURIWA which said it is deeply concerned about how Naira Marley is going through unlawful ordeals in the hands of the Lagos state police command, called on the police authority and the relevant prosecutorial authority in Lagos state’s ministry of justice to either charge the Musician to court or free him immediatel