CORRUPTION IS UNDER ATTACK, NOT JUDICIARY - PRESIDENCY

The Presidency assures that the President
reserves his highest respect for the judiciary
as the third arm of government. To this end,
the President will not do anything to
undermine its independence.
President Buhari remains a committed
democrat, in words and in his action, and will
not take any action in violation of the
constitution.
The recent surgical operation against some
judicial officers is specifically targeted at
corruption and not at the judiciary as an
institution. In a robust democracy such as
ours, there is bound to be a plurality of
opinions on any given issue, but there is a
convergence of views that the country has a
corruption problem that needs to be
corrected.
But reports by a section of the media are
giving us cause for concern.
In undertaking the task of reporting, the
media should be careful about the fault lines
they open. It is wrong to present this incident
as a confrontation between the executive and
judicial arms of government.
The Presidency has received assurances from
the DSS that all due processes of the law,
including the possession of search and arrest
warrants were obtained before the searches.
To suggest that the government is acting
outside the law in a dictatorial manner is to
breach the interest of the state.

GARBA SHEHU
SSAP (Media and Publicity)



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