Alleged Death: Court Orders IGP, Kyari To Produce Suspect Dead Or Alive

Yakubu Busari

 

A Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Tuesday ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr Abba Kyari to produce a suspect before it dead or alive.

 

Justice Dorcas Agishi of Federal High Court I gave the order while delivering her ruling in two applications filed before her by  Mr D.G. Dashe, Counsel to the suspect, Mr Nanpon Sambo, who was alleged to have died in police custody in Abuja.

 

The judge gave the police two weeks within which to produce the suspect or face the wrath of the Court.

 

Our Correspondent reports that Dashe had on Sept. 25 filed the two applications praying the court to order the IGP and Kyari, officer in charge of Intelligence Response Team (IRT), to produce Sambo, who is standing trial over alleged illegal possession of fire arm.

 

The application followed an earlier claim by the police, through their Counsel, Mr Joshua Ayanna, that the suspect died in their custody in July.

 

The court ordered, “this honourable is of the view that if the defendant is dead as claimed by the police, they should within two weeks produce his body at the Jos University teaching hospital mortuary for positive identification by a licensed medical practitioner under the supervision of the registrar federal high court Jos.

 

“Again, if the defendant is already been buried by the police, the police are hereby ordered to exhume the corpse of the defendant and produce it at the Jos university teaching hospital for positive forensic and DNA identification by a licensed medical practitioner,” the judge ordered.

 

Agishi warned that failure to comply with the within the stipulated time of two weeks will attract consequences.