NBA Condemns DSS, NCS Fight Over Emefiele, Says it’s Brazen Disrespect for the Sanctity of Court

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has condemned the show of shame by the operative of the Declaration of State Service, DSS, and the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State on Tuesday.

The DSS and NCS had fought in front of the high court over the custody of embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele who was charged on two counts bordering on illegal possession of firearms.

Speaking in a statement signed by its President Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau on Wednesday condemned the brazen disrespect of the sanctity of the Court.

Part of the statement reads, “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 towards attaining justice in a secured Nigeria cannot be overemphasized.”

“The NBA further condemns the brazen disrespect for the sanctity of the court premises. The courts and judicial processes remain the barometer by which the conduct of persons or agencies of government are gauged in assessing the rule of law.”

Mr. Godwin Emefiele who has been in the custody of the DSS for a month had been granted an N20 million bail as well as a surety in the same sum.