‘overzealous charge and bail’ lawyers fighting for Emefiele lacks legal knowledge, says DSS

On Tuesday, the Department of State Services referred to those attorneys who brought contempt charges against Yusuf Bichi, the director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS), as “charge and bail attorneys.”

the ongoing incarceration of Godwin Emefiele, the suspended former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, by the attorneys Maxwell Opara and Ahmed Tijani.

The service said in a series of tweets published on its Twitter account that the IPOB/ESN lawyer leading the lawyers was “overzealous and ignorant.”

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Charge and bail; aggressive, misinformed IPOB/ESN lawyer Maxwell Okpara rallies other like-minded attorneys against DGSS, it read. Wasted Resources. Nigerians, take caution! In ill faith, this is. transferred violence.

“A proponent of the Biafran Republic and an outlawed IPOB lawyer defending the CBN Governor. Is IPOB supporting a member of theirs?

How contradictory. What is the relationship? Are they trying to tell us something? Please educate Maxwell adequately regarding legal matters.

Opara and a few other attorneys had charged Bichi with contempt for allegedly disobeying many court orders and judgements directing the release of Emefiele from the agency’s custody.

They requested that the court imprison Bichi for contempt after alleging that he had violated many orders releasing Mr. Emefiele.