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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, Tuesday, justified the arrest and detention of judges by operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, saying “no one is or should be above the law”. Malami, who had on Monday, shunned a valedictory court session the Supreme Court held in honour of one of its retired Justices, Suleiman Galadima, broke his silence on the matter after he inaugurated an Expert Review Committee on implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). Asked about his view on the raid and subsequent arrest of seven superior court Judges, including two Justices of the Supreme Court, Malami said: “Was there an allegation of crime? Was there relevant provision of criminal procedure responsible for investigation? “Is there an allegation of corruption? If there is, no body, no matter how highly placed will be spared. “The right to investigate has no

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION Background of Study The term justice is increasingly becoming a fascinating issue on the front burner in our age. This is as a result of the many injustices that have becoming endemic and perennial, and whose brute impact we are experiencing in our contemporary age. This odious phenomenon has inevitable from recorded history has informed or drawn.It is in so, many philosophers and scholars into thought provoking reflections on the meaning, nature and essence of justice in human social intercourse. It is significant to assert that amongst the verse array of treatises on justice that of Thomas Aquinas is widely held as the most plausible and incisive. According to him, ‘justice is giving each one his due (Gratsch, 173). Moreover, Plato, the great philosopher is renowned for his brilliant pragmatic notion of justice. Plato’s justice was centered on the poor and deplorable political conditions in Athens. He sought the possible ways of restoring the sens