NDLEA Commander Wants Roli Bode George, Giade Imprisoned

Assistant state commander of National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency (NDLEA) Benjamin Saliu Ikani is urging National Industrial Court (NIC)
sitting in Lagos Southwest Nigeria to commit Chairman of NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade
and Director General of the agency, Roli Bode-George to one year imprisonment
each for disobeying a valid and subsisting order of the Federal High Court in
Lagos.

Roli, who is the wife of a chieftain of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), also doubles as the NDLEA secretary.

Both Giade and Roli were alleged to have disobeyed a court
order which restrained them from sacking Prince Benjamin Saliu Ikani, an
Assistant State Commander with the NDLEA.

In an order made by Justice Okechukwu Okeke (now retired) of
the Federal High Court in Lagos on November 9, 2010, the NDLEA and Giade were
specifically restrained from “interfering with or otherwise obstructing the
applicant (Ikani) in the performance of his duties as Assistant Commander in
the employment of the agency.

The order was to be in force until the final hearing and
determination of the suit file by Ikani.

However the suit was later transferred to the National
Industrial Court as the subject matter bordered on labour dispute.

In an affidavit sworn to by Ikani in support of the
committal motion, he averred that despite the fact that Giade and Roli were
aware of the existence of the interim order, they nonetheless suspended him on
February 16, 2015 from duty without pay.

He stated that: “the committal motion was filed basically to
protect and restore the dignity of the judicial process and to “punish these
characters (Giade and Roli) sufficiently to deter others from pursuing similar
paths of illegality.”

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