The court had issued two orders to the agency on the April 3 and 10, respectively, asking the agency to produce the two children it allegedly took into custody but none of the orders had been complied with.
Counsel to the plaintiff, Mr Edet Ating, in his prayers had asked for an order of the court, mandating the agency to release the two children of the applicants whom he alleged “have been detained by the first respondent since March 3, 2019 or invoke section 1 of the Child Rights Law which states that “the welfare of the children is supreme” among others.
According to the order, “It is hereby ordered that the 1st respondent, the National Agency for Prohibition in Persons and other related Matters should release to the applicants forthwith the children, Joshua Samson and Shekinah Samson, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.However, when the case came up for hearing on April 10, 2019, the 1st respondent was not in court.
The matter which has been pending in court since 20th February, 2019 over proper custody of the two children took a different turn last Tuesday, when NAPTIP allegedly moved the two children, Mr. Joshua Samson and Miss Shekinnah Samson to unknown destination without the order of the court.
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