Nigeria: CLO slams removal of rights commission boss

Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has condemned the removal and redeployment of the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr. Bukhari Bello. A statement by CLO President, Mr. Titus Mann, said: "The removal of Mr. Bello is coming on the heels of the statements purportedly made by him criticising government on issues of human rights abuses, attack on press freedom, the most recent being the arrest and detention of Mr. Gbenga Aruleba of the African Independent Television (AIT) and on the issue of the defeated third term bid of the Obasanjo government."