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The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA and the organized labour have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of sliding into dictatorship, saying such tendency is inimical to the survival of democracy.
The unions stated this in a statement in Ado-Ekiti yesterday by NBA Chairman, Dr Foluke Dada, the body said it views the arrest and detention by the DSS as a sharp departure from the tenets of Democracy and a clear contravention of the Law setting up the Institution.

"Above all, the arrest is a clear contravention of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which the DSS is established to up�hold at all times when dis�charging their duties.

"The NBA, mindful of the current fight against corrup�tion, calls on the authori�ties involved to uphold the Rule of Law. Hence, the Bar unequivocally condemns the forced entry into the hallowed chambers of the House and the arbitrary ar�rest of the lawmakers.

"The branch, while con�demning the commando style of the DSS, asks for the immediate disclosure of the where-about of the lawmak�ers and wants to know the offences upon which they were arrested to be made public."�

Also, the Chairman, Trade Union Congress in Ekiti, Comrade Odunayo Adesoye, described as a dangerous trend what could expose workers of the state civil service to serious secu�rity risk.

He said workers in the state are now apprehensive of what could happen at their duty posts due to anxiety created by the alleged invasion of the House by security agents.


Describing the DSS ac�tion as �brutish and barbar�ic', Adesoye said the arrests of these top government officials without any formal invitation, was a flagrant infringement on their fun�damental human rights as enunciated in the United Nations Human Rights' Charter.

Adesoye wondered why innocent Nigerians were be�ing clamped into detention by DSS while criminals are having a field day, terrorizing and killing citizens on daily basis.