The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commended the British parliament for standing in defence of human rights during the recent agitations across the country against police brutality.
This is even as the party lauded the government of the United Kingdom for muting possible sanctions against human rights breaches at the end of investigation and reports by the judicial panels of inquiry currently sitting across some states of the federation.
In a statement signed on behalf of the leadership of the party by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP urged the United Nations and other international bodies to immediately make known officials of the federal government involved in the violence that trailed the #EndSARS protests, particularly in Lagos.
The PDP noted that “rather than providing answers to these troubling questions, the federal government is desperate to gag Nigerians, muzzle the press, shut down the social media and even threatening the international media including CNN for carrying out an investigative report on the Lekki killing, while its officials continue to make contradicting claims on the matter.”
It would be recalled that Theresa Villiers, a member of the British Parliament for Chipping Barnet, earlier in the week, called on the UK government to “provide accountability for and be a deterrent to anyone involved in violations of human rights” in Nigeria during the recent crises, adding that the UK sanction regime gives the country a powerful new tool to hold perpetrators of serious human rights violations and abuses accountable.