Meanwhile, CIVIL Rights Advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday took a swipe at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) over its action that has culminated in an interim assets forfeiture order by a Federal High Court in Abuja against former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu.
In a statement by HURIWA group Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, he noted that asset forfeiture lawsuit coming at a time Ekweremadu was in custody, facing trial in the United Kingdom, and unable to defend himself or properly brief his lawyers was malicious, immoral, in bad faith, and tantamount to a country throwing her citizen under the bus.
HURIWA while decrying what it viewed as concerted effort between the anti-graft agency and the London Metropolitan Police to botch Ekweremadu bail and keep him perpetually in detention, said, it is in shock over the news of the interim assets forfeiture order
