By Adeleye Kunle
The Anambra State Ministry of Justice has expressed concern about the rate at which police officers in the state disobey court orders.
As a result, it has contacted Police Commissioner Echeng Echeng to discuss the situation.
In addition, the ministry has directed the CP to summon two of his men to testify in a case they are prosecuting.
The petition was filed after the two police officers failed to appear in court on May 24 at Nanka in Orumba North Local Government.
The court had also issued a bench warrant for the two cops (Paul Aigbogun and Baba Etta, a Sergeant and a Chief Superintendent of Police).
They were summoned to court on August 2 to testify in case NO AJMC/338C/2019 (COP vs Kingsley Chinedu Iloduba), but they did not appear.
A bench warrant was made available to reporters in Awka yesterday, addressed to the CP and other police officers.
In a memo signed by a Principal State Counsel for the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, I. J. Oguejiofor, the Commissioner of Police was also asked to make the two police officers appear in court to testify in the matter.
When the letter was brought to the attention of police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu yesterday, he stated that he had not seen it.
He did, however, assure that the command would get to the bottom of the problem.
Some residents have complained about the police command’s consistent and reckless disregard for court orders, rulings, and judgments.
Chief Ben Ezeibe, an industrialist, told Track News yesterday that the state’s police leadership should stand up.
Such disregard for court orders, he says, does not bode well for a constitutional democracy.
