…accuses DSS of usurping police power
Maduako Igbokwe I Tuesday, July 04, 2023
AWKA, Nigeria – A civil society group, Anambra State Civil Rights Concerns has faulted the decision of the Joint Administration Matriculation Board JAMB to ban Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme from sitting for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UMTE for three years.
The group also accused the Department of State Services DSS of usurping the powers of Nigerian Police Force to investigate and to prosecute in the was law Court
It further stated that both DSS and JAMB have no the constitutional power to prosecute Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme over alleged falsification of results.
The Spokesman of the group, Barr Paul Okoye who spoke with our correspondent in Awka Anambra state said that the two agencies usurped the powers of Nigerian Police by their actions. He said the actions of both bodies are of no consequence because it was done out of malice.
According to him,DSS is a secret body saddled with secret security information for the state and the country at large. He said that it is not the duty of the DSS to prosecute anybody accused of crime in Nigeria.
Okoye noted that the job which the DSS got itself involved is of the Nigerian Police, stating that the case of Nmesoma was very embarrassing to the DSS.
According to him, the three years ban placed on Nmesoma by JAMB was a show of malice against the poor girl.
“JAMB cannot in good fate place any ban on Nmesoma because she has made her position clear that she obtained her result from the JAMB portal and JAMB is saying that she forged the result”
“At this point the Police has to come in and carry out a holistic investigation and not a wishy – washy investigation into the matter and it should be a discreet investigation where by at the end of such investigation it would be the duties of the police to prosecute her, if she must be prosecuted “
“I see the three year ban on the girl by JAMB as a move out of malice because she has made her position clear and if JAMB says otherwise the next step is to first carry out an investigation before any form of punishment if found liable” he stated.
