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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has slammed the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS for demanding that the group pay N70 million income taxes.
DAILY POST reports that the FIRS, in a letter dated May 11, 2021, had urged HURIWA to remit its income taxes since the company was registered, stressing that failure to comply with the directive within seven days would attract a penalty.
Part of the letter reads: “You may refer to section 55(1) which states ‘Every company including a company granted exemption from incorporation shall, whether or not a company is liable to pay tax under this Act for a year of assessment, with or without notice from the Service, file a self-assessment return with the Service in the prescribed form at least once a year……” also note that Section 55(3) prescribes the amount payable as penalty for late filing.
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The Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari and the military authorities to be mindful of the implications of the shoot-on-sight directive in the garb of new security measures in the South East and South-South regions of the country.
In a statement issued yesterday in Abuja, National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, specifically urged the Federal Government to consider the constitutional obligations of the rules of engagement and respect for citizens’ rights, genocide and crimes against humanity, as enshrined in international charters.
The group carpeted President Buhari for his persistent marginalisation and scheming out of the South East from commanding position of significance in the defence institutions to such a ridiculous extent that no Igbo military officer attended the last meeting during which a decision to introduce new security measures for South East a
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The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has threatened to drag President Muhammadu Buhari to International Court over the alleged killing of members of the Eastern Security Network, which was established by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to check the incessant crisis between the killer herdsmen and the farmers in the region.
HURIWA accused the Nigerian Army and the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma of planning to crush the ESN from the region to pave way for the Fulani herders.
In a statement forwarded to DAILY POST on Tuesday, the Rights group urged President Buhari to Immediately arrest the spokesman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association for publicly threatening to launch attacks on the Igbos.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague | File photo: ReutersThe Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused soldiers posted to major roads in Imo and Abia states of escalating the “harassment, intimidation, physical humiliation and inconveniencing road users from enjoying the constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental freedoms of the citizens.”
It blamed Governor Hope Uzodimma for “militarising Imo State and allowing the troops to continue to unleash gross human rights violations.” x
The group claimed that the military was “openly displaying these tendencies of abuses of the constitutionally-protected fundamental freedoms of the citizens.”
In a statement by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA said its chief executive was leading a delegation from Abuja to monitor first-hand the experiences of residents in the hands of the Nigerian Army across the region.