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By _Kadiri Christopher_
The African Bar Association, AfBA, has recently called on the Department of State Services, DSS, to refrain from every attack on a Frontline human rights lawyer.
In a statement released to the Press, the AfBA alleged that the DSS denied a legal practioner, Douglas Ogbankwa Esq, access to his client who was detained by the DSS in Benin City the Edo State capital.
According to the Chairman of the Nigerian forum of AfBA, Dr Samson Osagie, "we have received the news of the assault on Mr Douglas Ogbankwa, a legal practioner based in Benin City by some officials of the DSS, Edo State Command.
"We condemn in strong terms the attempt to silence and intimidate a legal practitioner in the course of discharging his professional duties to his client.
"Mr Ogbankwa who is the Director of Strategic Communications of the African Bar Association is a well known defender of human rights and independence of the judiciary. He has been an advocate of the rule of law in the course of his law practice.
"We are concerned about the attempt by the DSS in Benin to denigrate the sanctity of the law by denying the fearless lawyer the opportunity to represent his client during investigations at the DSS office in Benin", he said.
He used the medium to call on the Director General of the DSS caution offending operatives from denying lawyers access to clients.
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