Inspector- General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar
An Imo indigine, Eteobong Polycap has filed a suit against the Inspector General of Police, IGP, the Police Service Commission, PSC, and Imo State Commissioner of Police at the Federal High Court, Owerri, for contempt of court.
The 13-paragraph affidavit he filed in support of his motion in suit number FHC/OW/CS/26/2011, Eteobong had avowed that he was a police officer with force number 198062 until 2007 when he was dismissed on an allegation of his alleged involvement in a murder case.
“I was charged with the offence of murder of Sunday Igwe and was arrested over same in 2006, but the trial court discharged and acquitted me from the allegation on June 29, 2010”, Eteobong stressed.
He also asserted that after his discharge and acquittal, he served the IGP a letter, demanding for his reinstatement, saying that on February 7, 2011, he moved to the Federal High Court, Owerri for an order to be reinstated into the force.
“The Federal High Court presided over by Hon. Justice F. A. Olubanjo heard the matter on merit and entered judgment in my favour on May 28, 2012”. On July 30, 2012, the judgment order was served on the IGP, Eteobong affirmed.
He said that Imo state police chief and the PSC were served with the judgment order respectively, but the commissioner refused, having administrative power to implement the court order and kept waiting for directives from the IGP.
“The IGP ignored the court order. Form 48 had already been served on the respondent, which is a notice of consequence of disobedience to court order”, Eteobong. Further stated.
The angry officer had complained bitterly that he had “been out of salary since March 2008 and this occasioned great financial hardship” on his home.
It would be recalled that Justice Olubanjo in his judgment passed that “the defendants have no justification whatsoever to terminate the employment of the plaintiff without recourse to due process of law occasioned by fair hearing”.
He had ordered that the dismissal of the plaintiff from the Force by the defendants was illegal and unconstitutional, having been freed of the earlier supposed crime.
“The defendants, especially the third defendant, PSC, are hereby compelled to reinstate the plaintiff to the Nigeria Police and promote him.”
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