CDHR re-elects National President, other officers, charges citizens to demand accountability


By Okechukwu Onuegbu



Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), a right group, Thursday, concluded it's annual general Conference with an election of new officers to pilot it affairs.

CDHR, at the end of its 2023 Annual General Conference (AGC) held in Awka, the Anambra State capital under a theme, human rights and good governance an entitlement to all journey so far and way forward, re-elected Comrade Dr Prince Kehinde Taiga as National President.

Other elected officers of the rights defenders were Comrade James Chibuzo Chikwendu, National Vice President; Comrade Credible Gerand Katchy, National Gen. Secretary; Comrade Jude Adimekwe, Asst. National General Secretary; and Comrade Michael Roy Olokungboye, National Treasurer.

Also elected were Barrister Ibijoke Fajugba Tijani; Comrade GodsPower Ugah, National Publicity Secretary; Comrade Infechiga Queen Chinazo, National Internal Auditor; Comrade Enohuwa Obamwonyi, Ex officio; and Barrister Emeka Anosike, Ex officio.

The re-elected National President, Kehinde Taiga, commended the delegates for conducting themselves proper and professional, even as he reassured the commitment of CDHR to defend the rights of the citizenry.

He called on Anambra State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo to device mechanisms and programmes capable of promoting good governance and addressing right violation and multiple taxation issues in the State. 

The National President of the group, Dr Kehinde Taiga, said the world eyes were on the governor to utilise his experience as an economist and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to revamp the State economy and not to create more hardship on people through multiple taxation.


"I urge governor Soludo as Professor to profess well to Anambra. Don't profess failure to your state but bring a massive development. How can a state of a professor have only 4 teachers in a public primary school? Only the State Internal Revenue was enough to develop the State; put schools in order, construct roads and others," he stated.


Also speaking, the National Vice President of CDHR, Comrade Chibuzo Chikwendu, while urging the governor to use human face in his activities, observed that many State infrastructure were falling and dilapidating, and should be fixed urgently.


Contributing, the Chairman of the occasion, Comrade Sunny Enenuvwedia, charged Anambra State residents to hold the government accountable from the ward to community, local government and state levels by getting involved in the happenings to detect, investigate and hold every public officer accountable always.


Enenuvwedia, who is a former National President of the CDHR, regretted that many were busy talking about the federal government whereas the States, LGAs and communities were been ruined by politicians and scrupulous elements through entrenchments of bad leadership, rights violation and high-handedness.