Did I hear the DSS wants to petition against Justice Taiwo Taiwo to the NJC for releasing Sowore on Bail?

CHIEF MIKE OZEKHOME,SAN

To me, it’s extremely silly and idiotic for anyone, least unexpectedly of all, the DSS, to petition against Justice Taiwo Taiwo before  the NJC, for granting bail to Sowore. Why didn’t the same DSS petition against the courageous Judge when he used his same undoubted discretion to order Sowore’s detention for 45 days in the first instance?

This government is one given to cheap duplicity, irreconcilable contradictions and barefaced impunity. It dances on governance principles like a yoyo! How can you petition against a Judge for exercising his discretion judicially and judiciously as permitted him by law?

The Judge was right in his order.Sowore was not charged with treason which carries the death penalty under sections 37 and 38 of the Criminal Code. He charged us with treasonable felony which is punishable with life imprisonment under sections 40-49 of the same Criminal Code. Even then, while section 161 permits a Judge to grant bail to a person accused accused of a capital offence in cases if exceptional circumstances, section 162 allows such bail more easily for felonious but non capital except where certain conditions are shown to exist.

None if these extreme circumstances existed to have presented Justice Tsiwo from granting Sowore bail. The only option open to the DSS if dissatisfied with Justice Taiwo’s judgement is to first obey the court order and then appeal against it. It has no right or power to choose, whimsically, capriciously and arbitrarily, what order to obey and which to disobey. Why didn’t the same DSS disobey an earlier order made by the same Justice Taiwo himself to keep Sowore in its gulag for 45 days in the first instance? Oh, I know why: the order favoured the government. At that stage, the Judge was incorruptible. For God’s sake, can someone please help me nudge this vindictive and intolerant government to the inescable reality that we are operating a constitutional democracy driven by adherence to rule of Law, observance of human rights and obedience to court orders? Can’t this government come to terms that we are not in a military junta,or a totalitarian, absolutist and fascist state? Hello, DSS, please, release Sowore immediately.