…Police unaware of court order to reinstate dismissed officer
…Say IGP’ll never disregard court ruling, rule of law
By Kingsley Omonobi & Ikechukwu Nnochiri
THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a court order.
But the Police in a swift reaction, said in a statement yesterday that the IGP would never disregard court ruling or rule of law, insisting they were not aware of a court order reinstating any dismissed police officer.
But the court, in a ruling delivered by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon, held that the IGP should be committed to prison and detained in custody for a period of three months until he obeyed 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…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
