Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has threatened to drag the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali to International Criminal Court, ICC, over his comment on Anti-Grazing law. HURIWA said it will drag Dan-Ali to ICC if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to arrest his Minister. Dan-Ali had on Tuesday in a statement, called for the suspension of the implementation of the Anti-Grazing law. He said the suspension will reduce the tension in troubled states across the country. “There is a need for the Nigeria Police and Department of State Services to prosecute all the suspects arrested in the affected states while negotiating safe routes for the herders,” Dan-Ali had said. Reacting to the statement, HURIWA described the Minister’s call as “treasonable felony” In a statement by its national Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA said the statement credited to the minister was the height of “irresponsibility and irrationality for a serving minister to ask states to susp...
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