The legality of sitting Governors helping alleged offenders to resist lawful arrest had became an alarming and worrisome situation in the Country.
You will recall that Governor Nyesom Wike recently foiled the attempt by the Department of State Services' effort to arrest a Judge in River State on October 8, 2016 without any justifiable ground.
Governor Fayose of Ekiti on the other side had severally prevented the lawful arrest of several suspects alleged to have committed an offence against the State. The most recent one is the resistance of the Department of State Services' arrest of Apostle Johnson Suleiman of the Omega Fire Ministry in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State Capital on 24th January, 2017.
No justifiable reasons had been given by the State Governor on why such conducts was manifestedly carried out except for his expressed opinion that he believed the DSS were instructed from Abuja to arrest the fire brand pastor.
The law empowers law enforcement agents to effect lawful arrest against offending individuals or group of individuals. And any unlawful arrest can be challenged in the Court of Law.
The idea of Governors or group of individuals leading armed thugs or mobs against Nigerian Police, Army, DSS or any State Security apparatus which is aimed towards helping offending suspects to resist lawful arrest amounts to waging war against Nigeria; hence a treasonable felony under Nigerian Criminal Code Act and same amounts to abuse of office which is an impeachable offence.
It is trite that no one is above the law. Be you so high, the law is above you. sitting Governors can therefore not be right in taking laws into their own hands by determining who to arrest or not.
Can we therefore watch these sitting Governors in the name of immunity continue their unusual, illicit and illegal conducts?
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