The men of the Department of State Services have invaded an Ogun State High Court sitting in Ilaro and arrested two defendants despite the judge\u2019s warning.<\/p>\n
The court was presided over by Justice AA Shobayo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The defendants, who were simply identified as Alhaji Isiaka Fatai and Samuel Oyero, were tried in a suit marked HCP\/IC\/2023 between the State vs Awode Oladosu & 13 others.<\/p>\n
The case was reported to be a result of a crisis that recently broke out in the Agosasa community in the Ipokia Local Government Area of the state over an Obaship tussle which led to the destruction of property worth billions of naira and loss of life.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, when the hearing was ongoing, operatives of the DSS stormed the court premises and took away the suspects.<\/p>\n
Confirming the incident, Counsel to Alhaji Isiaka, Kehinde Bamiwola, in a statement, alleged that men of the DSS operatives used weapons on the two, stressing that \u201cAlhaji Isiaka Fatai was beaten, slapped, man-handled, rough-handled and molested.\u201d<\/p>\n
Corroborating Bamiwola\u2019s claim, the Principal Registrar of the High Court and Sectional Head of High Court, Ilaro, Omololu Olusanya, confirmed the incident, describing it as shocking and disrespectful to the rule of law.<\/p>\n
He stressed that even after the judge had ordered the operatives not to make any arrest within the court premises, they still proceeded to arrest the two persons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey still went ahead and did the act to the extent that they assaulted one of our staff members, Mrs Fadina, while doing that act. It\u2019s a very sad issue that caused a lot of noise within the court premises.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was from the source that we heard they were DSS agents.\u00a0If anybody sees them, one would think they were armed robbers.<\/p>\n
Olusanya further said that their appearance was far from being identified as DSS agents, adding, \u201cThey did not wear anything that identified them as DSS, but they came to my lord this morning and said they had some people to arrest. That was when we knew they were DSS officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey approached the judge before the court session began. The honourable judge advised them that if they wanted to make an arrest, it must not be done within the court premises.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey could stay outside and do whatever they wanted, but they refused that advice and carried out the arrest within the premises,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
However, when contacted, the spokesman for the DSS, Peter Afunanya, did not answer calls or reply to text messages sent as of the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n
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