Shehu Sani
Shehu Sani is a Nigerian Senator, author, playwright and human rights activist, born on October 29 1967 in Tundun Wada, Kaduna State. He is currently the Senate Committee Chairman on Local & Foreign Debts and also serves as the Vice Chairman on Senate Committee on Foreign AffairsShehu Sani is the President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria (CRCN) and the Chairman of Hand-in-Hand, Africa. He was a leading figure in the struggle for the restoration of democracy in Nigeria. He has been arrested and jailed by past successive military regimes in Nigeria. He was released from life imprisonment when Democracy was restored in Nigeria in 1999. He contested and won the Kaduna Central Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressive Congress on March 28th, 2015. On 20 October, 2018, he announced his resignation from APC and defected to the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Kaduna
Shehu Sani Lectures Saraki, Ekweremadu, on Life in Prison
Shehu Sani is the first and only Nigerian Senator to declare his assets publicly.
He had his primary education at Local Government Education Authority (LGEA), Badarawa, and Kaduna between 1975 and 1980. He enrolled at Government Day Secondary school, Kagara, Niger State from 1980 to 1984, and proceeded to Government Science College School, Kagara, Niger State. He attended Kaduna Polytechnic between 1984 and 1993, obtaining HND in Agricultural Engineering.
Photos: Senators Shehu Sani, Hunkuyi Attacked During Press Briefing in Kaduna
From Kaduna Polytechnic, Sani went into national activism. He was introduced into the Campaign for Democracy (CD), Nigeria’s umbrella pro-democracy group by activists like Femi Falana and Beko Ransome-Kuti and thereafter served as the Northern Coordinator and National Vice-Chairman of the group. He was first detained in July 1993 under the regime of General Babagida. His offences then was that he advocated for the re-validation of the result of the 12 June 1993 Presidential election polls won by the Late Chief M. K. O. Abiola. Sani was charged at a magistrate court, Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Kaduna, for sedition. During the interim government of Chief Earnest Shonekan, Sani was arrested and detained for two weeks and later charged to court for sedition again. During General Sani Abacha's regime, he was implicated in the 1995 phantom coup and subsequently jailed for life and later commuted to 15 years by the Patrick Aziza Special Military Tribunal that convicted the likes of General Olusegun Obasanjo, Col Lawan Gwadabe (rtd) and Chris Anyanwu and other journalists; his charges were: "Accessory to the fact of treason and managing an unlawful society (the Campaign for Democracy)". He was detained in various prisons: Kirikiri, Kaduna, Port-Harcourt, Enugu and Aba.
Talking About My Hair Is Hate Speech, Shehu Sani Warns El-Rufai’s Wife
During the religious riots in Kaduna in 2000, he was the only human right activist in Kaduna that came out in the heat of the violence to condemn the massacre. In 2005, he was appointed to reshape the civil society in the national conference. Tradition rulers in the conference asked that Shehu Sani be barred from further speaking went he asked for their dissolution because of their pliant support for military dictator in the past. The chairman of the commission, Justice Niki Tobi turned down the call. During the riot in Kaduna, he pioneered the distribution of relief materials and initiated the visit to the “war zone” at the time when it was the most suicidal thing to contemplate.
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Under President Olusegun's administration Sani was appointed as a member of the African Union African Peer Review Mechanism, Member of the United Nation Reform Committee, appointed by Nigerian President as a Member of the Presidential Committee on Prison Reforms, Presidential Committee on the Control of Violent Crimes and Illegal Weapons, Presidential Committee on Petroleum Products Prices, Presidential Committee on Conflict Resolution, Member of the Niger State Judicial Commission of Inquiry, Member of the National Political Reform Conference, Member of the Charles Taylor Investigation Committee, also appointed by the Nigerian Government as a Board Member of the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI). Sani was a Member of the Presidential Committee on National Security and Civic Responsibility.
Demonstrate You Can Win Without Persecuting The Opposition, Shehu Sani Tells Buhari Government
His books include;
- Killing Fields, 2007
- Poverty in Northern Nigeria
- Political Assassination in Nigeria, 2007
- Youth as vanguard in the Battle against corruption
- Scorpion under pillow, 2007
- Civilian dictators of Africa, 2008
- Always wrong, can Yar’adua get it right, 2009
- Betrayal and Society, 2009
- The Children of Kaduna, 2011
- The Children of Jos, 2011
- Protest and Freedom, 2012
- Rebellious ideas, 2013
- Nigeria and Ethiopia: An analysis of historical ties, 2013
- Hatred for Black People, 2013
Plays
- Phantom Crescent, 2009
- Thugs at the Helm
Poetry
- Prison anthology, 2007
- The poem of peace in the season of bloodshed
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