Opinion is sharply divided, even among senior lawyers, about the legitimacy, propriety, legality and decorum of last week’s raid by the Department of State Services on the official quarters of judges around the country, and the subsequent arrest of the judges. Monitoring the controversy, it is helpful to narrow the heated debate down to disagreement over the method, Gestapo-style, some have called it, of apprehending the judges, not the least because the “operation” in Port Harcourt, for instance, took place around 1am on Saturday.
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