NBA drags Buhari to Court over extension of IGP’s Tenure
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to court over the decision to extend the tenure of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu.
President Buhari had extended the tenure of the IGP by three months instead of being replaced.
The Public Interest Litigation Committee of the NBA, in a suit filed on Thursday at a federal high court in Lagos, is seeking an order asking Adamu to vacate office.
The lawyers argued that Adamu’s continuous stay in office is in contravention of the provisions of section 215(1)(a) of the constitution. The NBA sought an order “setting aside the purported elongation of the tenure” of the IGP.
“An order directing the 3rd Defendant to vacate forthwith the office of the Inspector General of Police and refund all salaries, allowances and benefits received from February 1, 2021, (when he retired from the Police Force) to the coffers of the Federal Government of Nigeria”, the suit read.
you are just disturbing yourself…. you too knows that immunities cover him and he can do whatever he wants…..
I don’t even understand the reason why president buhari will still elongate the tenure of IGP after he has already due for retirement.
I hope the court won’t expatiate the case before the expiration of the added time giving to him, when there is capable hands in the police.
The president buhari is just behaving like there is no law in the country, he ought to have known that his tenure will expire on Feb. 1st and bring in capable person.
I will just implore him to live a legacy live because history won’t forgive him when he lives the throne.
Now the lawyers have woken up from there slumber, how can they allow one man to rule the country as he wish and not as the law says.