A National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the arrest of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Usman Alkali, and the Force Secretary, AIG Hafeez Inuwa, for disobeying the court order, which was regarded as contempt.
The court had earlier ordered the Inspector General to reinstate some police officers, who are graduates of Courses 33, 34 and 35 of the police academy, who were said to have been forcefully retired by the force, but the court order was allegedly not obeyed by the police boss.
The aggrieved officers approached the court and sought an order to nullify their compulsory retirement from the service by the Inspector General.
The court, presided over by Justice Oyebiola Oyewumi, and then ordered that the Inspector General of police, the Police Service Commission, and the Force Secretary of the Police reinstate the forcefully retired officers.
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