Former NHIS Executive Secretary Professor Usman Yusuf has alleged that the human rights of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai were violated in the manner in which he was arraigned before a court by the ICPC in Kaduna State.
Speaking in an interview with Daily Trust TV, Professor Yusuf said, “If you see the way they arraigned him in Kaduna, you will think they want to fight Bello Turji. As we speak, I still go to court, and they say I did this, and I said fine, give me my fair day in court,” he said.
The former NHIS boss was, however, careful to clarify that his support for El-Rufai was not rooted in political alignment, but in a principled stand against what he described as illegal detention.
He also defended El-Rufai’s right to speak to the media, describing freedom of expression as a fundamental constitutional right that no agency or government had the authority to take away….See More
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