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The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, on Wednesday, berated the Department of State Services, DSS, and officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, for engaging in a free-for-all within the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos, following the arraignment of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele.It will be recalled that operatives of the DSS had in a bid to retain the embattled ex-governor of the apex bank in their custody, manhandled a senior prison official.Trial Justice Nicolas Oweibo had after Emefiele pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition that the Federal Government preferred against him, granted him bail to the tune of N20million with one surety in the like sum.The court, thereafter, ordered that the defendant should be remanded in prison custody, pending the perfection of his bail conditions.The legal association, in a statement that was signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, “particularly denounced the DSS for its peculiar part in the disgraceful and unlawful conduct, considering the fact that the Court had earlier ordered that the suspended CBN Government be kept in a Correctional Centre pending the perfection of his bail conditions.”