Court docket orders imprisonment of Chief of Military Workers for contempt

A excessive courtroom sitting in Minna has issued a warrant of arrest on the Chief of Military Workers, Normal Farouk Yahaya for contempt.

The courtroom additionally ordered that the Commander, Coaching and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) of the Nigerian Military, Main Normal Stevenson Oluwagbenga, must be arrested for committing the same offense.

The presiding decide, who can also be the Chief Decide of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik, issued the order for the arrest of the highest military officers on the resumed listening to of the case between Adamu Makama and 42 others versus the Government Governor of Niger State and seven others in swimsuit NSHC/225/2019 and stated that the duo is to stay in detention till they purge themselves of contempt.

Plaintiff’s prayer: The order was sequel to a movement on discover introduced pursuant to order 42 rule 10 of the Niger State Excessive Court docket (Civil Process) rule 2018 and underneath the inherent jurisdiction of the Honourable Court docket moved by Mohammed Liman Esq Counsel to the plaintiffs/candidates.

Though the small print of the case are nonetheless sketchy, Mohammed Liman had prayed the courtroom to commute the Chief of Military Workers and the Commandant Coaching and Doctrine Command (respondents) into correctional custody for contemptuous order of this Honourable Court docket made on twelfth October 2020.

• Justice Abdulmalik within the order  declared: “An order is made committing the Nigerian Military Chief of Workers Normal Farouk Yahaya and the Commander Coaching and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Minna ie sixth &seventh respondents into the custody of the Correctional Centre for contempt of the order of this honourable courtroom made on the 12/1/2022
• “They shall stay within the custody of the Correctional Centre till they purge themselves of the contempt.’’

For the file: In a associated improvement, recall that just a few days in the past, a Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Abuja had sentenced the Inspector-Normal of Police (IGP), Usman Baba to three months in jail for disobeying a courtroom order.

The order, which was given by the presiding decide, Mobolaji Olajuwon, adopted a swimsuit filed by a former police officer, Patrick Okoli, who claimed he was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigeria Police Drive.

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