By Emmanuel Elebeke
ABUJA – HUMAN Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Inspector General of Police Alhaji Idris Kpodum Ibrahim to fish out the Police operative that reportedly physically manhandled and wounded a female journalist Ms. Taye Elebiyo Edeni in Kaduna during a presidential commissioning exercise recently.

Similarly, the Rights group has condemned the January 1st pre-dawn invasion by several armed police operatives drawn from the dreaded special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nnewi country home of the United Kingdom based publisher of an online medium Mr. Daniel Elombah and two of his brothers and whisked him away to Abuja underground detention.

The Rights group said the publisher of the online medium www.elombah.com Mr. Daniel Elombah who was locked up for over 48 hours before being reportedly released on bail but one of his brother’s still kept in Kuje prison, was harassed because of an article published in the medium purportedly accusing the Inspector General of Police of maladministration.

HURIWA demanded the issuance of a powerful query to the police Inspector General by the relevant committees of the National Assembly for abusing his power and for deploying public resources to engage in irrelevant private battles.

HURIWA said the Nigerian Constitution empowers the National Assembly to exercise oversight authority over the holder of the office of Inspector General of Police and wondered why the police