IGP Bags Three Months Imprisonment For Violation

IGP Alkali Baba

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to three months in prison for disobeying a valid court order.

In a judgement delivered by Justice M. O. Olajuwon on Tuesday, 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 on October 21, 2011.

The IGP’s committal followed a suit by a police officer, Mr. Patrick Okoli, who claimed he was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigerian Police Force.

“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 said.

Justice Olajuwon stated that though the Police Service Commission recommended Okoli’s reinstatement into the Force, that the IGP refused to comply with the order despite a decision affirmed by the court,

The court also ordered the payment of N10m to the applicant, being special and general damages 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.

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