Arrest impunity, stem anarchy, Don tasks Buhari

A senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Abuja, Peter Eje Ogah, has described the current level of impunity in the country in the guise of anti-corruption war as worrisome.
Consequently, he tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently address it to stem the tide.
The university don while delivering a lecture entitled;’ Leadership and Anti- corruption in Nigeria – Which Way Forward’, organized by Merit Time International in Abuja, Mr.
Ogah said President Buhari should demonstrate attributes of leadership, namely; creativity, fairness and fairness.
“What obtains in Nigeria today and particularly under the anti-corruption agencies according to the critics is rule of man.
Unlike the rule of law that imposes limits on the discretionary power of government, rule of man has no such limits.
Rule of law means that a government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and announced before hand,” he said.
“Before we forget, it was deep in the night the DSS burst into the homes of judges, broke down their doors and windows, shamefully wearing masks and hoods and rampaged the respected judges all in the name of executing purported search warrants.
What is lawless cannot be part of rule of law.
Do you know how many times Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser to Goodluck Jonathan, has been granted bail? “None of these bails has been honoured by the executive organ.
The most annoying aspect of it is a reminder from Mike Ozekhome SAN that after all, “the job of fighting corruption or money laundering is bestowed on the EFCC, ICPC and Police, not DSS.
“Immediately he assumed power, President Buhari drew our attention to the corruption in the judiciary.
He associated the judiciary with corrupt practices.
In addition, he maintained that the judiciary has not met the basic expectations required in fighting corruption.
Those who agree with Mr. President on this conclusion will always cite James Ibori, a former governor of Delta State, as a reference point.
Ibori was freed of all the sixteen charges against him in Nigeria and when tried outside was found guilty of three grievous cases and therefore committed to imprisonment.
“Corruption is everywhere in Nigeria.
About two weeks ago, the Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom sacked thirteen out of his seventeen commissioners and a number of his special advisers.
The interpreters of this action disclosed that those people that were sacked were loyalists of Senator George Akume, the political godfather of Ortom.
If this is true, then, it is another dimension of corruption.
He pointed out that Dasuki has been detained by the Department of State Service (DSS) since December 29, 2015 and that how Dasuki is treated exposes the government’s serial disobedience of court orders.
Against this background, the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghem, while commissioning an ultra-modern Court of Appeal Complex in Calabar charged his colleagues “to remain steadfast to their oath of office, the constitution of the country and continue to remember that without the rule of law, the society is doomed.