Nigeria Police Chief Sentenced to Three Months in Jail PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to three months in prison for flouting a 2011 court order., filed the suit to reverse the action.that Mrs Olajuwon made the committal order due to the IGP's refusal comply with an earlier order of the court in 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 judge said. She ordered the police to pay N10 million as damages to Mr Okoli for the"unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional denial of his rights and privileges as a Senior Officer of the Nigeria Police Force from 1993 till date."
The judge, Chizoba Oji, in a ruling said the EFCC failed to comply with an earlier order of the court.In nullifying the order, the judge said the evidence before her showed Mr Bawa had complied with the court's order, directing the EFCC to return a Range Rover Sport vehicle valued at N40 million, which it confiscated from Mr Ojuawo, a former Director of Operations at the Nigerian Air Force.
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