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Scholars International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (SIJLCJ)
Volume-5 | Issue-10 | 433-440
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Legislative Immunity in Nigeria and the Arrest of Senator Rochas Okorocha by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission: Interrogating the Law against the Sentiments
Ugochukwu Charles Kanu, D. O Okanyi, Leonard Ibekwe Ugwu
Published : Oct. 12, 2022
DOI : 10.36348/sijlcj.2022.v05i10.006
Abstract
It is not unusual in Nigeria for persons to engage in confrontation with law enforcement officers in Nigeria at the point of attempt to arrest them. This nation became saddled with this development on the evening of the 24th day of May 2022 when virtually all the television channels in Nigeria and the social media was agog with live pictures from the Abuja, Federal Capital Territory residence of His Excellency Senator Rochas Okorocha. The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (hereinafter referred to as EFCC) with the Nigerian Police in an attempt to arrest the senator encountered resistance as he refused to surrender himself to the law enforcement agents but rather locked all the entrances to his residence. Reasonable force was deployed and some part of the roof and ceiling was pulled off in order to secure access to before he was arrested. This paper seeks to question the propriety or impropriety of the destruction of his property in an attempt to arrest the Senator without warrant of arrest; to examine the immunity of the senator from arrest being a serving senator and a former Governor of a State under the Nigerian laws in comparison with what obtains in foreign jurisdictions.
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