DSS Invites Justice Dimgba over Petition

Davidson Iriekpen

The Department of State Services (DSS) has invited Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja to appear before it on Monday.

Though it is not clear why the service is inviting the judge, sources close to it said the invitation was to possibly drill him based on the petition it received against him.

Justice Dimgba was among the judges whose houses were invaded by the DSS penultimate Friday.

Though the DSS said it mistakenly landed in the judge’s apartment, he was not arrested as the operatives went to his house with neither of the two warrants had his name.

His brother who was in the house was reportedly assaulted.

Many have attributed the travail of the Justice Dimgba to his recent decision declaring as unlawful, the arrest and continued detention of Air Commodore Umar Mohammed (rtd), a member of the Presidential team investigating the arms deal in the country.

He had chided the DSS in court for flouting an order to remand a defendant to prison.

Mohammed was ordered to be remanded to Kuje prison on Thursday and on Friday, the DSS failed to produce him at a hearing for his bail application.

“I take a strong exception to this type of behaviour; when the court orders that someone be kept in prison custody, the person ought to be kept in prison and not in the office.

“If the people at the DSS want to become judge and do their job as well, I am ready to vacate my office for them. But as long as I am still here, I take an exception to them flouting the orders of the court. Once processes have been filed in court, it is no longer in their hands and the order of the court must be obeyed,” Dimgba.