Court Set Aside Judgement, Convicting IGP Baba Over Alleged Contempt

Abiola Olawale
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has vacated its November 29, 2022 judgment which convicted the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba over alleged contempt.

The presiding judge, Hon. Justice Bola Olajuwon held that she erred in her earlier judgement.

In her ruling on yesterday, Justice Olajuwon held that there was evidence before her court that the IGP has substantially complied with the court’s earlier order, directing the reinstatement of Patrick Okoli, who was compulsorily retired as a police officer.

Justice Olajuwon decided that in view of the development, the application by the IGP, seeking the vacation of the committal order, “is worthy of sympathetic consideration.”

She held that, “In view of the substantial compliance with the order of the court and the assurance of ensuring full compliance, the order commuting the applicant, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, is hereby set aside.

It would be recalled that Justice Olajuwon had, in the ruling of November 29 convicted the IGP and sentenced him to a three-month jail term for failing to obey the October 21, 2011 judgment of the Federal High Court reinstating Okoli.

Okoli was compulsorily retired in 1992 while serving in the Bauchi State Command as a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) by the Police Council (now Police Service Commission (PSC), which claimed to have acted under Decree 17 of 1984, a decision the court voided in the October 2011 judgment.

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