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Mr Olukoya Ogungbeje, a Lagos-based lawyer, has filed a N50bn suit against President Muhammadu Buhari, the Department of State Services and its Director-General, Lawal Daura, along with others for allegedly violating the rights of judges whose houses were raided by the DSS operatives between October 8 and 9. The crackdown of allegedly corrupt judges, has stirred great rift between the Judiciary and the Executive even as Nigerians debate over the rule of law. Others joined as defendants in the suit, with number FHC/ABJ/CS/809/16, are the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN); the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris; and the National Judicial Council. According to The Punch, Ogungbeje filed the suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, October 14. He alleged that the arrest of the judges without recourse to the NJC was unlawful and amounted to humiliating them. He said the DSS operations violated the rights of...