Tambuwal tells court to jail IG of Police

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Aminu Tambuwal has appealed to a Federal High Court in Abuja to summon the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, to explain why he should not be jailed.

Tambuwal accused Abba of flouting the court order of November 7th, which directed all parties involved to stop his removal as Speaker of the House.

The Speaker filed a new suit on Thursday, before Justice Ahmed Mohammed, alleging that Abba's instruction to the men of the police to deny him access into the premises of the National Assembly which prevented him from carrying out his lawful duties on November 20, amounted to flouting the court order of November 7th.

Tambuwal added that Abba further disrespected the court order, on November 26, by appearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs and telling the members that he would not recognize him (Tambuwal) as the Speaker.

Tambuwal suit read in part, "On November 7, 2014, when this matter came up the 5th defendant (the Inspector General of Police) was represented in court by a learned senior counsel, Ade Okeaya-Inneh (SAN).

"The learned senior counsel for the 5th defendant informed the honourable court that the fifth defendant was duly
served with the originating summons in this suit.

"At the hearing of the case on same day, the learned senior counsel representing the 5th defendant informed this
honourable court that he undertook that the 5th defendant would not do anything to tamper with the res in this suit.

"This honourable court thereafter ordered that party should maintain status quo pending the determination of the
substantive suit.

"Everybody except Suleiman Abba, Esq, who is the Inspector General of Police, has been obeying the order of this honourable court made on November 7, 2014."

Tambuwal, through his lawyer, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi, who leads eight other Senior Advocates of Nigeria and many
other lawyers, is therefore seeking "an order of the court directing Suleiman Abba, Esq, (Inspector General of Police) – the 5th defendant in this suit – to appear in person and to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt of order of this honourable court ordering maintenance of status quo on November 7, 2014 and/or for acting in manners and ways which showed disrespect to court."

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