The absence of Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High
Court, Abuja, on Thursday, stalled the hearing of a suit filed by a group
against the police over the suspension of DCP Abba Kyari.
Although counsel to the applicant, the Incorporated Trustees
of Northern Peace Foundation, Hamza N’Dantani, was in court, the court
registrar apologised over the inability of the judge to sit.
The matter, which was on number six on the cause list, was
however fixed for April 4 for hearing.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) also reports that the
matter could not proceed, on Jan. 12, due to the absence of counsel to the
plaintiff and the respondents in the suit.
Justice Okorowo then adjourned the matter until today for
hearing.
NAN reports that the foundation, in a suit marked
FHC/ABJ/CS/854/2021, sought to stop the police and the Attorney-General of the
Federation (AGF) from arresting and extraditing DCP Kyari.
The suit filed on Aug. 9, 2021, is praying the court to
grant a temporary order of injunction against the police and the AGF pending
the hearing and final determination of the substantive suit.
NAN reported that the matter came up for the first time
before Justice Okorowo on Jan. 12.
The case, which was earlier before Justice Ahmed Mohammed,
was reassigned to Okorowo.
Okorowo, in the last adjourned date, ordered that hearing
notices be issued on the parties.
Recall that DCP Abba Kyari was allegedly indicted by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in an alleged multi-million naira
advanced fee fraud said to have been perpetrated by a Nigerian citizen, Ramon
Olorunwa Abbass, popularly known as Hushpuppi.
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