PROTEST: Football Stakeholders Storm NFF Over DSS Supreme Court Violation

PROTEST: Football Stakeholders Storm NFF Over DSS Supreme Court Violation The National Association of Nigeria Footballers (NANF), football pundits and football lovers on Wednesday stormed the headquarter of the Nigeria Football Federation with a peaceful protest over Supreme court violation by the DSS The president, NANF, Harrison Jalla who led the protest "No to Impunity, No to DSS Occupation of NFF." G The peaceful protest which aimed at seeing the end to laying siege of the Department of State Security at the Nigeria Football Federation headquarter in Abuja was demonstrated in front of the building around 9:45am. Speaking with www.bsnsports.com.ng Harrison Jalla accused the DSS of acting in contrary to Supreme Court ruling. He also stated that the decision of the judiciary must be respected. However, while the protesters were leaving, he threatens that the protesters are coming back tomorrow to confront them. "We want the directorate of DSS to enforce the Supreme Court rulings and vacate this premises. We are deploying this measure as the first step by the time we come back here the second we will confront them." Also speaking during the protest, former second vice chairman, Chief Rumson Baribote said that the DSS occupant of the NFF headquarter is unconstitutional as nobody has the right to set aside Supreme Court orders. "There is no constitutional provision that when the Supreme Court has ruled anyone has a right to set it aside. I have never seen a situation where a court of competent jurisdiction gave an order and the DSS that suppose to uphold and enforce such ruling are doing contrary. We appealed to the security agencies to respect the laws that gives them the legality to operate."