Judges may be VIPs but they are not above the law, and when they commit heinous crimes, they are treated like criminals.

Judges may be VIPs but they are not above the law, and when they commit heinous crimes, they are treated like criminals.
There is no law saying judges can't have their houses raided when arresting them and preventing them from tampering with evidence. The FBI does it regularly in the US. If you disagree, please read the story of Rep. William J. Jefferson of Louisiana (of the Atiku Abubakar fame) whose house and two offices were raided by the FBI during an investigation into a bribe he collected from a telecom company to help influence US government contracts. He was later arrested, prosecuted successfully and sent to prison. Now, if there is an order of merit for federal lawmakers and judges in the US, lawmakers should be superior. Nigeria follows the US style of government even if she borrowed English Common Law. So, because the house of a judge was never raided before in Nigeria doesn't make it illegal to do so with cogent reasons. Lawyers have been talking of the DSS inviting the judges instead of raiding their homes. That is laughable. Even me who knows little about the law of evidence will be smart enough to hide all those dollars and pounds if given 20 minutes notice of DSS wanting to question me or search my house. By the way, the FBI found $90,000 hidden in Rep. Jefferson's refrigrator. Google and read that story before we argue further. And if I find time, I can retrieve stories of US law-enforcement officers raiding the house of a judge in the middle of the night and prosecuting him successfully in court.

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