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  • Contempt: Court vacates order sentencing I-G to 3-month imprisonment

    Contempt: Court vacates order sentencing I-G to 3-month imprisonment

    A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, set aside its order committing the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Usman Baba to three-month imprisonment for contempt.

    Justice Bolaji Olajuwon, in a ruling, said that there was evidence before the court that the I-G had substantially complied with the court’s earlier order directing the reinstatement of Patrick Okoli, who was compulsorily retired as a police officer.

    Justice Olajuwon, therefore, agreed with the submission of counsel to the I-G, Simon Lough, SAN, praying the court to void the Nov 29 committal order.

    The judge consequently declared that in view of the development, the application by Mr Baba “is worthy of sympathetic consideration.”

    “In view of the substantial compliance with the order of the court and the assurance of ensuring full compliance, the order committing the applicant, Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, is hereby set aside,” she ruled.

    Newsmen reports that Olajuwon had, on Nov 29, convicted Baba and sentenced him to a three-month jail term for failing to obey the Oct. 21, 2011 judgment of a sister court presided over by Justice Donatus Okorowo, reinstating Okoli.

    Okoli was compulsory 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.

  • IGP calls on operatives to embrace holistic intelligence gathering

    The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Usman Baba has called on police operatives to embrace holistic and effective intelligence gathering in the prevention of crime and criminal activities in the country.

    The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this in a statement in Abuja.

    Baba said preventive policing was important because it prevented the occurrence of crime, engendered peace and ensured the provision of optimal policing services to the citizenry.

    The I-G said his administration would not relent in fighting crimes, criminality, and a general state of insecurity to a standstill in Nigeria.

    The I-G commended the Police Command in Oyo State and the Force Intelligence Bureau Intelligence Response Squad (FIB-IRT) for their recent successes in crime-fighting.

    He said the operatives recorded the successes through the deployment of technologically advanced assets, community-based and traditional policing methods and improved police visibility.

    Baba said the achievements were recorded via identification, trailing and arrest of criminal suspects through actionable technical and human intelligence.

    He said the intelligence led to the arrest of six members of a notorious bank robbery gang after concluding plans to execute a bloody bank robbery attack on a new generation bank within the Ibadan metropolis in Oyo State.

    The I-G said the FIB-IRT had also arrested five members of a fraud syndicate specialised in hacking into bank accounts of individuals and corporate bodies to steal monies.

    According to him, the suspects got apprehended while attempting to hack into a company’s account and steal the sum of N3.4 billion.