Court Orders Arrest, Remand Of Chief Of Army Staff, General Faruk Yahaya, Commandant TRADOC Minna Over Contempt

Barely 24 hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali, to three-month imprisonment, another High Court in Minna, Niger State has issued a warrant of arrest for the Chief of Army Staff, General Faruk Yahaya for alleged contempt of court.

Justice Halima Abdulmalik of the court also gave the same order for the Commandant Training and Doctrine Command Minna, Major General Stevenson Olugbenga Olabanji.

She held that the order followed the hearing of a case brought before the court, pursuant to Order 42, Rule 10 of the Niger State High Court Civil Procedure 2018.

Justice Abdulmalik declared: “The order is commuting the Chief of Army Staff, General Faruk Yahaya and the Commandant Training and Doctrine Command Minna, Major General Stevenson Olugbenga Olabanji, to be kept in Minna Correctional Custody for contentions of the order of this court on 12 October 2022.The state’s chief judge also directed that the two suspects should be remanded in custody until they purge themselves of the court contempt, while matter was adjourned to 8 December 2022 for continuation.