Justice Dorcas Agishi of the
Federal High Court on Wednesday ordered the Inspector General of Police,
Mohammed Adamu and Abba Kyari, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of
Intelligence Response Team (IRT) to appear on Sept. 25 to show cause why they
should not be charged with contempt.
The order is coming seven days
Agishi failed to produce a suspect in court for trial.
The suspect, Mr Nanpon Sambo, was
very reportedly arrested and detained by the police since February 2019, but
have not been charged before any law court in Nigeria.
Agishi ordered that the IGP and
Kyari must appear before the court on the next adjourned date of Sep. 25.
”The IGP and Abba Kyari are to
forthwith produce the accused person in the registry of the court here in Jos
immediately for documentation and transfer to Jos Prisons pending the resumption
of court from vacation.
“They are to appear before this
honourable court on the next adjourned date of this case to show cause why the
Court should not visit them with the consequence of contempt for deliberately
disobeying its orders, “ Justice Agishi held.
Counsel to Sambo, D.G. Dashe,
argued that the judicial powers of the federation shall be vested in the courts
to which this section relates, being courts established for the federation”.
“The federal republic of Nigeria
shall be a state based on the principles of democracy and social justice. It is
hereby declared that – sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom
government through this constitution derives all its powers and authority,” he
argued.
According to him, the Nigerian
police force is a creation of the law and must at all times act in line with
law that the arrest and long detention of his client without charge since Feb.
is “unconstitutional.”
He prayed the court to order the
remand of his client in Jos prisons pending when the court resumes from
vacation to properly consider the circumstances of his arrest and further
prayed the court for an order compelling the IGP and Kyari to appear before the
court.
“The suspect should be brought to
the court registry for documentation and immediate remand in a Jos Prison
pending when the court would resume after this year’ judicial annual vacation,”
he pleaded
NAN reports that Sambo is being
tried for illegal possession of sophisticated fire arms but that shortly after
the presidential elections, he was allegedly picked up by masked men of the IRT
under the control of Abba Kyari.
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