DSS has no right to arrest judges, Prof Omaka, SAN insists

By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI-A Senior Advocate and Professor of Environmental law, Prof. Amari Omaka yesterday stressed the DSS has no powers to make such form of arrests under the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Prof Omaka who lectures in the Law Faculty of Ebonyi State University said even though he does not support any form of corruption by any individual at any level, the manner in which the war against corruption was being pursued particularly in recent times called for concern among well-intentioned Nigerians. “The manner in which the Directorate of State Services has gone about these arrests leaves much to be deserved because I know as a legal practitioner of my standing that there are ways of disciplining erring judges. “So to me, it is a desecration of the highly-honoured judicial system for a DSS to go into their houses to arrest them without any recourse to due process, he said stressing that at the level of the Supreme Court judges, if any of them were invited to come and answer questions on allegations leveled against them, naturally, the person would honour such”. Prof Omaka who is the first and only Senior Advocate from Ebonyi suggested that rather than arrest judges, the proper thing would have been for the DSS to pass through the Chief Justices of the relevant courts of the state to produce whoever it is that has any case against them.
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