The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has called on the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to safeguard the independence and integrity of the judiciary.

The National Coordinator of HURIWA, Mr Emmanuel Onwubiko, made the call in Abuja on Saturday at a news briefing.

The coordinator decried the way some of lawyers make unsubstantiated statements over national issues through the media describing it as `antithetical to democratic tenets’.

“Credibility of the civil society is damaged when we allow ourselves to become political tools,’’ he said.

Onwubiko urged the federal government to review its anti corruption war and be fair to all.

He also charged the media to be objective in reporting corruption cases.