USMAN ALKALI BABA, SENTENCED TO THREE-MONTH PRISON TERM

The Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Usman Alkali Baba, the Inspector General of Police, to three months in prison.

Baba disobeyed a legitimate court order, which led to the judgment being rendered on Tuesday and the sentencing that followed.

Delivering the ruling, Justice M. O. Olajuwon held that the IGP should be kept in prison and detained in custody for a period of three months, or until he obeys an order it made on October 21, 2011.

"If at the end of the three months, the contemnor remains recalcitrant and still refuses to purge his contempt, he shall be committed for another period and until he purges his contempt", he stated.

The development comes following a suit filed by an officer named Patrick Okoli, who was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigerian Police Force.

Justice Olajuwon disclosed that the Police Service Commission (PSC) recommended Okoli's reinstatement into the Police force and that even though it was affirmed by the court, Baba failed to comply with it.