Former Minister, Gbagi backs DSS Crackdown on Judges

 By Henry Umoru

 ABUJA – FORMER Minister of State, Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi Monday threw his weight behind the crackdown on Judges by the Department of State Security Service, saying that once the security agency puts its house in order and deal with the judiciary, 40 percent of problems affecting Nigeria as a country would have been solved.

 Addressing journalists Monday in Abuja, Gbagi, a lawyer and a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP noted that that the operations of the DSS was carried out in accordance with the law, with due process followed, just as he opposed the position of his party (PDP) and the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA for opposing and attacking the DSS for the operation, adding that the laws of Nigeria gave the DSS what he termed, the legitimacy to raid the judges’ houses as well as arrest them even without a court warrant.

While the PDP had condemned the arrest and described the DSS’ action as a gradual descent of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration into fascism and autocracy, the NBA had also opposed the arrest and called for immediate release of the judges.

 Explaining why the DSS decided to take such an action by swooping on the judges, Gbagi, a trained criminologist, revealed that the security agency had invited the judges, but upon getting information that the judges had instructed their lawyers to file stay of execution on their impending arrest on Monday.

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Former Minister, Gbagi backs DSS Crackdown on Judges On October 10, 20168:40 pmIn NewsComments By Henry Umoru ABUJA – FORMER Minister of State, Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi Monday threw his weight behind the crackdown on Judges by the Department of State Security Service, saying that once the security agency puts its house in order and deal with the judiciary, 40 percent of problems affecting Nigeria as a country would have been solved. Addressing journalists Monday in Abuja, Gbagi, a lawyer and a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP noted that that the operations of the DSS was carried out in accordance with the law, with due process followed, just as he opposed the position of his party (PDP) and the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA for opposing and attacking the DSS for the operation, adding that the laws of Nigeria gave the DSS what he termed, the legitimacy to raid the judges’ houses as well as arrest them even without a court warrant. While the PDP had condemned the arrest and described the DSS’ action as a gradual descent of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration into fascism and autocracy, the NBA had also opposed the arrest and called for immediate release of the judges. Explaining why the DSS decided to take such an action by swooping on the judges, Gbagi, a trained criminologist, revealed that the security agency had invited the judges, but upon getting information that the judges had instructed their lawyers to file stay of execution on their impending arrest on Monday.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/former-minister-gbagi-backs-dss-crackdown-judges/