The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has condemned the arrest of one of the activists who led the protest against banditry and President Buhari’s seeming inaction Alhaji Nasturah Ashir Sherrif.
He was picked and sent to Abuja and has not been released. Sherrif is the chairman, Board of Trustees of Coalition of Northern Youth.
Executive Director of CISLAC, Awwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani) made this known in a press statement, describing the action as “incessant disrespect for democratic values and unchecked violation of citizens’ rights”
“While we follow with keen interest the deliberate disregard for the rule of law and nonchalant response towards public agitations, we condemn in totality outright disproportionate deployment of armed forces with resultant arbitrary arrest that creates unjustified tensions and threatens civil liberty in the country; as recently observed in the case of Alhaji Nasturah Ashir Sherrif, who is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Coalition of Northern Youth”.
Sheriff was arrested by the Nigerian Police for organising a series of peaceful protests against the killing of innocent people by bandits and other criminal elements in Katsina State and other states in the North.