The group said the bodies had continued to perpetuate human rights violations against civilians and junior military officers.
HURIWA also alleged the role of the political elite and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to check military and police excesses have been seemingly compromised.
According to the group’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, by virtue of the last amendment of the enabling Act, NHRC has been empowered to enforce respect for human rights by all persons and authorities in Nigeria.
HURIWA regretted that NHRC’s ineffectiveness is worrisome even after the body has been granted financial autonomy and gets its allocation directly from the Federation account, and not as an envelope from the Federal Ministry of Justice.
The rights group urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to check alleged lawlessness within the army and the police to prevent impunity that could threaten national security and destroy constitutional democracy.
It called for the arrest of police officers, who invaded the Umuahia, Abia State public-owned television studio during a live programme and arrested an unarmed guest at the programme on the charge that he was wanted over criminal charges.
