{"id":44439,"date":"2021-06-04T08:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T08:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=44439"},"modified":"2021-06-04T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T08:11:44","slug":"huriwa-vows-to-drag-wike-to-icc-over-alleged-threat-to-kill-bury-ipob-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=44439","title":{"rendered":"HURIWA vows to drag Wike to ICC over alleged threat to kill, bury IPOB members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has reacted to alleged threats issued by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to \u201ckill members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and bury them like vultures\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group vowed to drag him before the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, Netherlands, for making such a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wike<\/a> had, on Tuesday, June 1, while commissioning construction works at the Ahoada Campus of the Rivers State University (RUST), and the dualization of the Ahoada-Omoku Road in Ahoada Town of Port Harcourt, said IPOB members and other criminals who refuse to repent would soon meet their deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many Nigerians, human rights activists and the All Progressives Congress (APC), have continued to criticize Wike over the comments, HURIWA has gone a step further by vowing to open a case against him at the international court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Thursday signed by HURIWA\u2019s Executive Director, Emmanuel Onwubiko, and made available to Ripples Nigeria, the group wondered why the Governor should make such a statement against a non-violent organisation who are only demanding for self-determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read also: HURIWA accuses security agencies of secretly killing innocent Igbo youths<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing Wike as power drunk and uncouth, the human rights group urge him to apologise to IPOB and youths of the South-East or they will proceed to the ICC and sue him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe threat by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to kill and bury IPOB members like vultures is rather unfortunate and dangerous for our fragile country,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt shows a man who is power drunk, uncouth and speaks without thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnly a man who is power drunk can make such threats against a non-violent group only seeking for self-determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe urge him to recant the statement or we will challenge him before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, if he carries through his primitive and unconstitutional threat,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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