…Threat to arrest me irresponsible, constitutes abuse of power, violates my rights, Says Ex-Minister
The Delta State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa, on Friday denied threatening to arrest former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
Inuwa, while responding in an affidavit to a suit filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja by the former Minster, told the court that the Police in Delta State had stayed action regarding the recent Police invitation to Gbagi and have not been threatening to arrest him.
The Commissioner of Police in the affidavit submitted: “That contrary to paragraph 4(c), (d),(f) and (g) of the Applicant’s affidavit in support of the motion for jointer, the party sought to be joined together with the Respondents in this case have stayed every action regarding the invitation of the Applicant and have not been threatening to arrest the Applicant.”
According to the respondents to suit No. FHC/ABJ/1267/2020 before the Federal High Court, Abuja, the Delta Commissioner of Police added that the Police is “not making any effort after been aware of the pending interim order” granted by the Court on the 30th Day of September, 2020, stopping the Police from arresting Gbagi.
The submission by the Commissioner of Police to the Federal High Court through his lawyer, Lukman Fagbemi, contradicts his comments in an interview published by a National daily on the November 25th, 2020, where-in he threatened and vowed to arrest Gbagi inspite of the subsisting Court injunction.