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Buhari Finally Breaks Silence on the Arrest of 7 Judges - Mhiz Rebecca - 10-10-2016
President Muhammadu Buhari has officially spoken
on the reason for the arrest of seven senior judges
across the nation between Friday night and
Saturday morning.
In a statement issued on Sunday by Malam Garba
Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and
Publicity, the president stated that the `surgical
operation’ against some judicial officers by the
State Security Service (SSS), was an assault on
corruption and not on the judiciary.
Garba also maintained that: “The Presidency
has received assurances from the DSS that
all due processes of the law, including the
possession of search and arrest warrants
were obtained before the searches.”
On Friday night, 7 judges – including two judges of
the Supreme Court – were apprehended in the
raids, condemned by lawyers and rights groups.
They are expected to be charged to court as from
today, October 10, 2016.
Read statement below:
The Presidency assures that the President
reserves his highest respect for the
institution of the judiciary as the third arm of
government.
To this end, the President will not do
anything to undermine its independence.
President Buhari remains a committed
democrat, in words and in his actions, and
will not take any action in violation of the
constitution.
The recent surgical operation against some
judicial officers is specifically targeted at
corruption and not at the judiciary as an
institution.
In a robust democracy such as ours, there
is bound to be a plurality of opinions on any
given issue, but there is a convergence of
views that the country has a corruption
problem that needs to be corrected.
But reports by a section of the media are
giving us cause for concern.
In undertaking the task of reporting, the
media should be careful about the fault lines
they open. It is wrong to present this
incident as a confrontation between the
executive and judicial arms of government.
The Presidency has received assurances
from the DSS that all due processes of the
law, including the possession of search and
arrest warrants were obtained before the
searches.
To suggest that the government is acting
outside the law in a dictatorial manner is to
breach the interest of the state.