Nigeria: Crackdown On Judges - Reactions Trail Justice Okoro's Bombshell

20 October 2016

The polity was awash with mixed views, yesterday, over Justice John Inyang Okoro's allegation that his travails in the hands of the Department of State Services, DSS, was in connection with the alleged desire of the Presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to win the Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia states election appeals.

Justice Okoro is one of the two Supreme Court justices and five High Court judges, whose homes were invaded by operatives of the DSS, penultimate week, over alleged graft.

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