Emefiele: NBA deplores DSS, prisons officials’ clash
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has deplored the clash that took place between some officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) and those of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) on the premises of the federal high court on Tuesday.
The DSS officials had swooped on the suspended governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele after the court granted him, leading to a struggle between them and the NCS officials.
NBA’s President Yakubu Maikyau, in the statement, said the act was a “brazen disrespect for the judicial process and sanctity of the court premises.”
He furthers said, “The NBA has particularly denounced the DSS for its peculiar part in the disgraceful and unlawful conduct, considering the fact that the Court had earlier ordered that the suspended CBN governor be kept in a custodial centre pending the perfection of his bail conditions.
“A situation where officers of Federal Government agencies engage in a fight as witnessed by the public, for whatever reason, is antithetical to our security as a nation and creates a recipe for anarchy and chaos.
“Both the DSS and the NCoS are important institutions dealing with national security and administration of justice respectively, and the need for them to work in concert toward attaining justice in a secured Nigeria cannot be over-emphasised,” the statement read in part.
The NBA said while it is difficult not to hold the leadership of the two Federal Government agencies directly responsible for the shameful and disgraceful conduct of the personnel, the NBA president has particularly called on the two agencies “to take immediate disciplinary measures against the officers involved in this disgraceful conduct”.
Equally, Maikyau urged a complete overhaul of the institutions and a total reorientation of the personnel to ensure professionalism and synergy in the discharge of their respective constitutional responsibilities.
(NAN)
