An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has tackled the Department of State Services (DSS) over the continued detention of the suspended
In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, Olajengbesi, a civil rights lawyer and Managing Partner at Abuja-based law firm, Law Corridor, said the prolonged detention of Bawa by the secret police was illegal and an embarrassment to the nation’s justice system.
Olajengbesi said the DSS should charge Bawa to court for alleged offences levelled against his office as EFCC boss or immediately release him to rejoin his family members. LEADERSHIP reports that on June 14, 2023, President Bola Tinubu suspended Bawa as the anti-graft czar over alleged abuse of office and “to allow for a proper investigation into his conduct while in office”.
Bawa was subsequently quizzed at the DSS headquarters the same day and nothing has been heard of the matter for three weeks now. Therefore, Olajengbesi said, “When Bawa was suspended and detained, I joined other well-meaning Nigerians to hail the move by President Bola Tinubu because the EFCC under Bawa violated fundamental human rights through reckless midnight Gestapo raids on hotels and homes of innocent citizens.
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