As @GovKaduna, @elrufai was lawless. I disagreed with him then. Today, he is being treated as beneath the law. I disagree with that too.
I call @elrufai a #VileLittleMan. But the rights in the constitution of #Nigeria are not meant to protect merely people whom we like or agree with. No one in #Nigeria shd be above the law or beneath it.
The constitution is clear on the standards of pre-trial detention. And it prohibits administrative detention
If @icpcnigeria, @OfficialDSSNG or whoever else is holding him have crimes against him which are tenable in court, they shd charge him to court.
Whatever happens, there is no legal basis or justification for keeping him or anyone in detention interminably. That is keeping a citizen beneath the law. It is unlawful, unjustifiable & unconstitutional.
A former Chairman, National Human Rights Commission
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