The about a dozen legislators of the Ekiti State House of Assembly were escorted into the Vanguard corporate headquarters last Wednesday by four heavily armed mobile policemen, reflective of the troubled times that have recently befallen them. Unlike many other Nigerians in precarious conflict situations, the Ekiti lawmakers were not in conflict with armed robbers, insurgents, ethnic militias or sorts. They were rather in battle with the instruments of state in the form of the Department of State Services, DSS.