The current system of governance in Rivers is “alien” and “antithetical to our hallowed profession as legal practitioners and adjudicators,” said the chief magistrate.
Mr Mahdawi, a green card holder for more than 10 years, is the latest permanent resident to be caught by the Trump administration’s deportation web.
“When this government came in, they looked into the issue of inmate feeding and increased the allocation by 50 per cent,” said the NCoS.
Mr Soyinka warned that such censorship is counterproductive and dangerous to democratic development.
“He is currently in custody, and arrangements are being made to charge him to court without delay,” the police said.
They urged Mr Mbah to fulfil his promise of inaugurating the commission by the first quarter of 2025 to ensure the inclusion of PWDs in governance.
In a statement on Friday, Tochukwu Ikenga, the command’s spokesman, confirmed their arrests and detention.
Amnesty International called the ban “an appalling reminder that artists are at the risk of being silenced. Nothing can justify suffocating creative freedom.”
“The rule of law won today. Time to bring him home,” said Andrew Rossman, one of Mr Garcia’s lawyers.
The Nigerian Red Cross Society has distributed dignity kits to 110 women of reproductive age and girls with disabilities in Nasarawa.
