Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) is a non-governmental organization and non-partisan human rights and development league with the mandate to protect and promote universally recognized human rights, accountability and environmental justice in Nigeria and Africa, in accordance with international standards.

We bring the above request as a matter of national importance and urgency. Our request is against a current serving Senator of the 9th National Assembly in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by name, Danjuma Goje. Our demand is premised on corruption allegations of N25 Billion levelled against him and widely circulated by the media. Sequel to this, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission carried out detailed and diligent investigations for about 10 years spending about 250 Million of tax payers money and resulting in the matter being charged to court before Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court, Jos, Plateau State. The matter was suddenly, in a dramatic turn of event, taken over by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice in June only and then withdrawn on the 6th July, 2019 based on what the general public knows its for political expediency, as was published by Premium Times on the 6th July, 2019.

The people of Gombe persistently suffer from flood and erosion which is common to Gombe State. This raises questions on the need for the case to have gone through due process without marks of suspicion and conspiracy in the withdrawal of the corruption charges.

We write this request to demand that a man of this kind of political standing with flags and stains of corruption allegations should not be allowed to hold an American Visa or if he already has one, it should be revoked.

We rest our demand on the S.284 - Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, 114th Congress (2015-2016) particularly, Section 3a (3) & (4)

Kindly read more via: https://hedang.org/blog/heda-asks-president-trump-to-revoke-senator-gojes-visa/