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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