IGP, COAS, EFCC Boss, And Paramilitary Head In Danger As The Courts Rule Against Their Actions Or Inaction
••• Court again orders arrest of Army Chief as 3rd high-profile contempt ruling in weeks
By People’s Voice Nigeria | News
A high court sitting in Minna, Niger state, has issued a warrant of arrest for Faruk Yahaya, chief of army staff (COAS), for contempt.
A warrant of arrest was also issued against Olugbenga Olabanji, commandant of the training and doctrine command in Minna, for the same offence.
The order was issued with respect to a suit marked NSHC/225/2019.
The suit is between Adamu Makama and 42 others versus the executive governor of Niger State and seven others.
The motion for the issuance of the warrants was moved by Mohammed Liman, counsel to the plaintiffs/applicants.
Liman had prayed to the court to send the army chief and commandant to the correctional centre for disobeying an order made on October 12, 2022.
Ruling on the application, Halima Abdulmalik, the presiding judge, said: “An order is made committing the Nigerian army chief of staff general Farouk Yahaya and the commander of training and doctrine command (TRADOC) Minna, i.e., the 6th and 7th respondents, into the custody of the correctional center for contempt of the order of this honourable court made on the 12th of October 2022.”
The judge added that “they shall remain in the custody of the correctional centre until they purge themselves of the contempt.”
The case has been adjourned to December 8 for continuation.
On Tuesday, a federal high court in Abuja sentenced Usman Baba, the inspector general of police, to three months in prison for disobeying a court order.
Mobolaji Olajuwon, the presiding judge, issued the ruling on Tuesday, following a suit filed by Patrick Okoli, a former police officer who claims he was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigerian police force.
Similarly, it had been reported that an FCT high court ordered the remand of Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for contempt.
However, the order was later set aside.
