Senator Abaribe in Court today :

Counsel to Abaribe :
My lordship my client was arrested DSS and had been held incommunicado till today .

Justice Nyako : I did not make any order for his arrest .

Counsel : He was arrested days ago and brought to this court from DSS custody .

Justice Nyako :
You should know what to do if the man was arrested without court directive .

Counsel : My Lord the content of the search warrant that they brought to his (Sen Abaribe) house for search relates to this matter ( Nnamdi Kanu ) of which is under your court .

Justice Nyako : DSS is not an extension of this court . I did not make any order for the arrest of the surety and I don't also know why he was arrested. Those that did so should know why they did as such .

Counsel : My Lord , my client was to be in court today only for the agents of the state to arrest him and kept him incommunicado for days . My Lord we are talking about a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Justice Nyako : You know what to do in a situation like this !

Counsel : Even where he has been incommunicado my Lord ?.

Justice Nyako : Who brought Sen Abaribe to Court ?

DSS Personnel : We did my Lord .

Justice Nyako : Allow him access to his counsel .
For whatever reasons you arrested him , please allow him access to a lawyer of his choice .

DSS Personnel : Okay My Lord .

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Outside the courtroom :

As Senator Abaribe stepped out of the Courtroom , there were over 50 journalists with various cameras waiting for him to address them .

How Trouble started :
The moment reporters rushed to interview Senator Abaribe, DSS personnel insisted that he must not talk .

The Crowd of Journalists started shouting : allow him to address the press !!

It is his right !!!

He must talk to us !!!

You can't stop him from talking to the press !!! Etc .

Then , crowd erupted into singing " Freedom Come ooo by Struggle ooo, Freedom Come , by Struggle by Struggle , freedom Come ...!!

As tension was building up , DSS men smuggled Senator Abaribe back to the Court to allow tension die down.

One thing here , is that he was not in Court as a result of an arraignment for any fresh allegation or case but was in Court based on the ongoing matter previously postponed to this date by Justice Nyako on a pending case involving Nnamdi Kanu .He was to come to Court from his house and not from any custody !

The question then becomes ....why the deliberate arrest and harassment of a Senator for obviously no reasons whatsoever

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Me : It is now obvious that he was arrested not based on any court directives . We are losing it !
You pick a serving Senator like common criminal and kept him incommunicado because of his outspokenness .

I pity those clapping for this inept team that keep over heating the polity !

It is reported that DSS has released the Senator now .

#OurDemocracy

Ikechukwu Emeka Onyia ©2018
Abuja , Nigeria

Onyia so you are on nairaland too?

#Nigeria is really in an awkward situation right now.