Court Orders Arrest Of COAS For Contempt
Category: Nigeria News
A High Court Sitting in Minna, the Niger State Capital, has
issued a warrant of arrest on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Faruk
Yahaya for contempt.
Also to be arrested include Commandant
Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, Major General Olugbenga Olabanji for a
similar offense.
The presiding judge, Justice Halima Abdulmalik
said the order followed upon hearing on motion on notice brought before the
court in pursuant of order forty two rule ten of the Niger State High Court
Civil procedure 2018.
READ: Abuja Court Sends EFCC Chairman To Prison For Contempt
Justice Abdulmalik ruled that the order is commuting Yahaya and Olabanji
to be kept in Minna correctional custody for contentions of order of this
court on 12 October, 2022.
According to her, the two suspects are
to remain in custody until they purge themselves of the contempt.
Justice Abdulmalik then adjourned the case to December 8 for
continuation.
READ: Court Sends Inspector-General Of Police Usman Baba To Prison
In November, Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja
sentenced the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba to three months in
prison for disobeying a court order.
Delivering ruling, Justice
Olajuwon issued the order following a suit filed by a former police officer,
Patrick Okoli who claimed he was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the
Nigeria Police Force.
Also in November, Justice Chizoba Oji of a
High Court Abuja convicted the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa for contempt and ordered that he should
be committed to prison at Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja.
READ: ASUU Sues Edo Varsity Over Alleged Contempt Of Court
The judge held that Bawa was in contempt of the order of the court made on
November 21, 2018, directing the commission to return to an applicant, his
Range Rover and the sum of N40 million.
However, Justice Oji in a
subsequent ruling set aside the conviction of Bawa after hearing an
application brought by the EFCC chairman.
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