COURT VACATES ORDER COMMITTING IGP TO 3-MONTH IMPRISONMENT

 

 




By Our Reporters

 

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, set aside its order committing the Inspector-General (IG) of Police, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to

The three-month imprisonment for contempt order committing the Inspector-General of Police, IGP,Usman Alkali Baba has been set aside by a Federal High Court, Abuja today.

In a ruling, Justice Bolaji Olajuwon, maintained that there was evidence before the court that the IGP had sufficiently complied with the court’s initial order for the reinstatement of
Patrick Okoli, who retired compulsorily as a police officer.

Therefore, Justice Olajuwon,agreed to void the November 29 committal order, a submission to the prayer of counsel to the IGP, Simon Lough SAN.

Consequently,the judge declared that the application by Mr Baba “is worthy of sympathetic consideration.”

“In view of the substantial compliance with the order of the court and the assurance of ensuring full compliance, the order committing the applicant, Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, is hereby set aside,” she ruled.

On November 29, Olajuwon had convicted Baba and handed him a three-month jail term for not obeying the October 21, 2011 judgment of a  court  reinstating Okoli presided over by Justice Donatus Okorowo.

The compulsory retirement of  Okoli was in 1992 while he served in the Bauchi State Command as a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) was carried out by the Police Council (now Police Service Commission (PSC), which acted under Decree 17 of 1984.


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