The Nigerian Bar Association – Security Agencies Relations Committee (“NBA-SARC”) has taken urgent cognizance of the unpleasant video presently making the rounds on social media wherein uniformed officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (“NCS”) were seen violently manhandling, harassing, and physically intimidating a Legal Practitioner who, supposedly in the course of the discharge of professional duties, had accompanied a client to the NCS, for resolution of a dispute on the impounded car of his client.
Quite sadly, the NBA-SARC has, prima facie, observed from the referenced viral video that the said Legal Practitioner in the course of discharging his regular professional duties, was seen being manhandled by several uniformed NCS officers and forcefully detained on the instructions of an officer of the NCS.
The NBA–SARC strongly condemns such wanton display of brute force, physical harassment, and intimidation as seen exhibited against the Legal Practitioner in the viral video by some officers of the NCS. Indeed, this ugly incidence goes against every known ethical and operational standard of the NCS, which is one of the elite security agencies with pivotal security mandates.
The NBA-SARC has written the NCS urging it to be more courteous in its dealings with Legal Practitioners as such instances of harassment and intimidation as witnessed in the viral video do not speak well of the NCS.
We hope that the NCS takes a cue and employs a more decent approach in its interaction with Legal Practitioners as it should not be seen working against the interest of justice.
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Joe-Kyari Gadzama, OFR, MFR, SAN
Chairman, NBA-SARC
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