Lawyers in Defence of Democracy, a group of legal practitioners, have accused the State Security Services (SSS) of disregarding the rule of law.
The group’s Convener, Kingdom Okere, made this claim during a Friday appearance on Arise TV, where he expressed concerns over the detention of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.
Okere said, “The DSS has a history of disobeying court orders. It is their stock in trade.
They also gave a track record of invading people’s homes in the wee hours of the day or night just as they did to justices of the supreme court and of course, you know how the matter ended. DSS has always proven itself as an agency that flouts the rule of law.
They see themselves as above the law, whereas they were established by just a piece of legislation, the Security Agencies Act that was signed by the president and they now see themselves to be over and above the constitution of Nigeria that established the federation where all arms of government must operate within the ambit of the constitution.
“Tinubu, the new president has a track record of believing in the rule of law. One example is that he fought former President Olusegun Obasanjo when he withheld the local government allocation due to Lagos state because Tinubu found that it was within the powers of the state Assembly to create local governments or development centres as they are called today.”
