The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria has lambasted President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Strategy and Information, Bayo Onanuga, for his recent comments.
HURIWA described Onanuga as a “historical loose cannon” who speaks without introspection, making him unfit to represent the President.
The group also urged the President to appoint professionals as spokespersons.
“We urge president Bola Ahmed Tinubu to appoint a qualified, more sober, reflective and professional media spokesman to stop the loose Canon which Bayo Onanuga is from making Nigerians and the listening World think or believe that Nigeria is a dungeon whereby outlaws or wanted persons can hide inside the houses of governors or president and wouldn’t be arrested because the constitutional provision of immunity from prosecution in section 308 which covers only governors, deputy governors, president and the vice president but does not cover their households to become Refuge of accused persons or persons wanted by law enforcement agencies.”
“This explanation by Onanuga is spurious, laughable, and fallacious. The immunity from prosecution as provided for by the Nigerian constitution did not turn government houses into the refuge of suspects and accused persons who can’t be arrested by security forces.”.
