Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court in
Abuja, Wednesday issued an order of
perpetual injunction restraining the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed
Abubakar, from arresting the embattled Chairman of the disbanded Pension Reform
Task Team, PRTT, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina.
The court made the order after it vacated the
warrant of arrest that was issued against him by the Nigerian Senate.
Senate had declared the ex-pension boss wanted
following his alleged refusal to appear before it to explain his alleged
complicity in the illegal diversion of funds meant for pensioners across the
federation.
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Meantime, sequel to intensified bid by the Senate to
apprehend him for questioning, Maina, approached the high court, alleging
threat to his fundamental human right to life and liberty as enshrined in
section 35 of the 1999 constitution.
Arguing through his lawyer Mr M. A Magaji, SAN,
Maina, insisted that the Senate acted beyond its powers when it ordered his
arrest, contending that “nowhere in the entire provision of section 89 of the
1999 constitution which was relied upon by the Senate, was the word ‘Arrest’
mentioned.
He equally adduced eleven exhibits he said would
prove that he was being witch-hunted unnecessarily, just as he urged the court
to award to him the sum of N1.5billion “for the trauma, psychological pain they
have subjected me to.” (Vanguard)
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