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Court sets aside order sentencing IGP, Usman Baba, to three months
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has on Wednesday, 14th December 2022, set aside the contempt proceedings and committal order against the Office of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP).
According to a press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Prince Olumuyiwa Adejobi, this “This is following the motion filed before the Federal High Court on Thursday 1st December, 2022, by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, NEAPS, fdc, CFR, highlighting the basis why the order should be vacated, particularly as the Force had complied with the original ruling of the court for the reinstatement of one Patrick C. Okoli, the plaintiff in the matter.”
NewsWireNGR earlier reported that Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, 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.
The court held that the IGP should be committed to prison and detained in custody for a period of three months, or until he obeys an order it made since October 21, 2011.
“If at the end of the three months, the contemnor remains recalcitrant and still refuses to purge his contempt, he shall be committed for another period and until he purges his contempt”, the court held.
