The DSS Is After Me For Berating Them In Court, Says Justice Dimgba
(L-R) Justice Adeniyi Ademola and Justice Nnamdi Dimgba[/caption]
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba has in a letter to the National Judicial Council (NJC) explained that the Department of State Security (DSS) raided his home because he berated the them in open court for flouting his directive on the matter involving a former member of arms probe panel, set up by the Federal Government, Air Commodore Umar Mohammed (retd).
In his letter dated October 10 to the NJC, he alleged that he was subjected to harassment and intimidation because of the rulings he had delivered against the DSS.
Recounting his ordeal, he said the DSS had first moved against his registrar by detaining her at their office in Abuja and asking her to implicate the justice.
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Dimgba said they “threatened her to provide them with testimonies that could implicate me in the performance of my official duties.”
On the raid on his home, the justice wrote: “When I asked, they first presented me with a search warrant for a No. 19 Ogbemudia Crescent, Apo Legislative Quarters, Zone E and which had a John Inyang Okoro as defendant. When I explained to them that my house address was not No. 19 Ogbemudia Crescent, Apo Legislative Quarters, Zone E, and that my name was certainly not John Inyang Okoro, on the search warrant, the DSS team leader explained that there was a mix-up, and then presented me with another search warrant for 30 Ogbemudia Crescent, Apo Legislative Quarters, Zone E, but which had A.F.A Ademola as the defendant.
“When I also explained that I was not A.F.A Ademola but that my name was Justice Dimgba, the DSS team leader stated that whatever was the case, they (the DSS) were under instructions from above to search Justice Nnamdi Dimgba’s house.”
According to him, he managed to “seek refuge in the garden” in an adjacent premises, where “I endured the whole ordeal in this open garden as my neighbour was away.
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“Thereafter, the DSS operatives turned on my nephew, who resides with me, and my driver, beat them to a pulp with guns, and forced their way into and ransacked the entire house in the course of execution of a non-existent search warrant.”
He said the DSS operatives eventually went away with his work bag “containing a number of case files which I had planned to work on for the weekend in relation to judgments adjourned, the power cable of my laptop and also my copy of the reply dated September 4, 2016, which I had sent to the NJC to the DSS’ petition against me.”
His prayers to the NJC include: “I pray, my Lord, for your intervention to: stop these acts of harassment and intimidation against me by the DSS; and
“Ensure the immediate return of these seized case files and my answer to their petition to me. Not returning the case files makes it almost impossible for me to proceed with the completion of the judgments.
“I also wish to state that I intend to commence legal proceedings in court against the DSS for the above brazen violations of my rights, unless my Lord otherwise advises.”
