Court orders arrest of army chief -- 3rd high-profile contempt ruling in weeks

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Court orders arrest of HQNigerianArmy chief — 3rd high-profile contempt ruling in weeks | TheCable

Bolanle OlabimtanA high court sitting in Minna, Niger state, has issued a warrant of arrest for Faruk Yahaya, chief of army staff , for contempt.

A warrant of arrest was also issued against Olugbenga Olabanji, commandant of the training and doctrine command, Minna, over the same offence.The suit is between Adamu Makama and 42 others versus the executive governor of Niger state and seven others.The motion for the issuance of the warrants was moved by Mohammed Liman, counsel to the plaintiffs/applicants.

Liman had prayed the court to send the army chief and commandant to the correctional centre for disobeying an order made on October 12, 2022. Ruling on the application, Halima Abdulmalik, the presiding judge, said: “An order is made committing the Nigerian army chief of staff general Farouk Yahaya and the commander training and doctrine command Minna i.e 6th &7th respondents into the custody of the correctional centre for contempt of the order of this honourable court made on the 12/10/2022.”The judge added that “they shall remain in the custody of the correctional centre until they purge themselves of the contempt”.

 

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Sir, proceed to jail sir! U can’t take ur adc Sir.

🤣 Police wey no fit arrest efcc chairman na him wan arrest army chief... Into the next one pls🚶🏾

If Nigeria had a working system, not one would have been above the law but sadly the law is only for the poor that's why news like this are seen as abnormal.

HQNigerianArmy This is very interesting 😁😁who will do the arrest? Well if it's a country where law is practised strictly this shouldn't be a problem. Such will willingly submit to the arrester with no hard feelings because he knows he was just carrying out constitutional duty.

HQNigerianArmy Who will arrest him now?

HQNigerianArmy 😂😂😂😂

HQNigerianArmy Court ti ya werey, who will go & arrest COAS. Walahi, we will not meet again cos na ur memorial service. Court making a mockery of self

HQNigerianArmy Aisha Buhari tell ur impostor husband Buhari to obey court order on discharge n acquitted ruling by court to release Nnamdi Kanu,before subjecting a virgin boy to an inhumane curropt judicial system in Nigeria.Impostor Buhari,IGP,Army chief,EFCC all have disobeyed court ruling.

HQNigerianArmy Northern students must start protest immediately for unconditional release of Aminu, he did nothing wrong.This is wife of a tyrant n extremist,Buhari.This is all they know,but they will fail this time Nothing must happen to that boy. Other politicians will take this as a lesson.

HQNigerianArmy 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this kind paper arrest this days dey funny me ooo..now army chief..court has done paper/media arrest of almost all our security chiefs heads in the country.Una weldone oo.. Abeg leave Army chief and IGP for us. because of security pls.

HQNigerianArmy Oya na

HQNigerianArmy Lolz, court orders arrest. Let wait and see how laws in Nigeria are effective.

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