Former Minister of Culture and Tourim, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lambasted the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed for saying President Muhammadu Buhari flouts court orders on the ground of national security.
Speaking on the Osasu Show, the minister of information said, ”Every government will balance national security with human rights; every country in the world. It is the level of the balancing.
”As a government, I will balance national security against human rights; and then I will take a decision. Because there is security, there is stability, that the courts also exist.
”What I am saying (is) that the court has ruled but the court does not have the entire picture when it comes to national security. I am a lawyer too, therefore I have utmost respect for the judiciary,” he said.
Fani-Kayode, however, took to his Twitter handle on Saturday to respond to the statement by Lai Mohammed.
”The assertion that govt. has the right to disobey court orders on grounds of national security is dangerous and false. Lie M. needs a new brain.
”He looks and sounds like a drunken monkey and garrulous chimpanzee when he says such things. This is a democracy and not a military regime!” he wrote.
