The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The group hinged its call on what it described as the illegal constitution of the Christopher Kolade-led Subsidy Re-investment Trust Fund.
In a statement after an emergency meeting of the national executive committee of the HURIWA, and jointly endorsed by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Director of Media Affairs, Miss Zainab Yusuf, and made available to LEADERSHIP, the group said the constitution of the Christopher Kolade-led Subsidy Re-investment Trust Fund’s management board amounts to the illegal usurpation of the constitutional powers of the National Assembly to pass appropriation laws.
The group also expressed surprise that the National Assembly under the leadership of Senator David Mark and Speaker Bello Tambuwal had not thought it wise to urgently convoke emergency sessions of the two chambers of the National Assembly to wade into the ongoing national emergence occasioned by the illegal hike in the purchasing prices of fuel even when riots are spreading across the country.
The group said that the National Assembly was obliged to reconvene immediately to intervene in the national crises.
It also condemned the reported killing by the? Police? of one protester in Illorin, Kwara State and stated that the unilateral action of the Federal Government to withdraw the subsidy on fuel even when popular opinion of the people of Nigeria was against the action because of its inherent adverse economic predicaments on the economy of the general populace, amounted to unconstitutional conduct which must not go unpunished, if truly Nigeria is a country governed by law and the supreme provisions of the constitution.