The Senate on Wednesday resolved to analyze the invasion of
a state supreme court in Rivers state.
Some suspected loyalists of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) on might eleven stormed the Rivers State state supreme court in
Port-Harcourt, destroying court property calculable in variant Nigerian
monetary unit.
The attackers broken the court security around eleven a.m.
associate degree exceedingly|in a very} violent bid to prevent a decide from
sitting on an motion brought by a faction of the party within the state,
witnesses aforementioned.
Moving a motion, Osinakachukwu Ideozu (PDP, Rivers West), UN
agency delineated the act a “brazen act of lawlessness”, aforementioned it
absolutely was perpetrated within the presence of the police, particularly
those of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS).
He aforementioned the police didn't offer adequate security
for the premises and therefore the judicial staff, litigants, lawyers, judges,
among others, “but rather prevented legitimate access to the offices, precincts
and courtrooms in an endeavor to impede, if not pervert the course of justice.”
Mr Ideozu expressed worry that almost one week after the
attack, the police were nonetheless to create any statement on the assault on
the Rivers State judiciary and haven't created any arrests despite the
condemnation that followed the event.
The Senate, thereafter, resolved to mandate its Committee on
Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to analyze the misdemeanor and report
back among period of time.
It condemned the attack and commiserated with the chief
decide, judges and workers of the judiciary of Rivers State.
It additionally urged the protection agencies to require
immediate steps to produce the judiciary everywhere the country with adequate
security.
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