Nigeria, Aug. 7 -- The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the Nigeria Police Force for arresting officers of the Ministry of Justice in Anambra State for withdrawing a criminal case.

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, allegedly ordered the arrest of the state's Director of Public Prosecutions, Ikechukwu Nwabueze, on Monday. He was arrested along with three lawyers from the department, for exercising the Attorney General, Sylvia Ifemeje's constitutional power to file notice of discontinuance (nolle prosequi) of a homicide case.

NBA questioned the need to summon these law officers from Anambra State to Abuja. It described the police invitation and release on bail of the law officers as "provocative and an assault...