Obono Obla, a
special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution may have
inadvertently admitted that the DSS raid on the homes of senior judges
in the country violated the Administration of Criminal Justice Act,
ACJA.
Obla’s comment exonerated Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers in preventing the abduction of Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt.
Obla was a guest of a morning show,
Sunrise Daily on Channels TV on Monday, October 10, 2016, where he
admitted to the limitation of ACJA to Abuja alone, in a frantic bid to
justify the powers of the DSS to arrest anyone at anytime.
His comment on the TV show has now
further exposed the need for the Department of State Security Services,
DSS, to confirm to Nigerians as to whether it obtained the necessary
warrant in conducting its failed Port Harcourt operation.
The DSS accused Governor Wike of
obstructing justice and acting inappropriately when he intervened in the
botched abduction of the federal judge.
Under the Nigerian laws, search warrants
obtained in one state of the country cannot be executed in another
state except it is endorsed by a magistrate or a judge equal in rank to
the one that issued the warrants.
If ACJA is limited to Abuja, the
question then is: Did the DSS adhere to the rules governing the
procurement and execution of a search warrant in Rivers State?
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