Court restrains police from arresting Maigari, 10 others
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An Abuja Federal High Court yesterday granted the Alhaji Aminu Maigari led leadership of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), an interim injunction restraining the police from arresting its members.
Chief Akin Olujinmi, (SAN), counsel to Maigari and 10 other officials approached the court with an exparte motion seeking an injunction to bar the police from arresting or threatening to arrest the plaintiffs.Delivering the ruling, Justice Adamu Bello held that the defendants, by themselves, and all officers, servants and functionaries of the Nigeria Police Force were barred from inviting or arresting the plaintiffs on account of alleged violation of a court order.
Bello said that the injunction would subsist pending the determination of the motion on notice filed by the Registered Trustees of the National Association of Nigeria Footballers (NANF).
The other plaintiffs are: Mike Umeh; Johnson Effiong; Christopher Green; Emmanuel Adepoju; Deji Tinubu; Shehu Adamu, Felix Anyansi-Agwu as well as Muazu Suleiman.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the Inspector-General of Police (IG) Hafiz Ringim and Jubril Adeniji, a Commissioner of Police are listed as the defendant and respondent respectively.
The NANF had on September 7, 2010 obtained a judgment of a Federal High Court annulling the elections that brought the plaintiffs to power.
The judgment further declared that the plaintiff must stop parading themselves as officials of the federation forthwith.
The plaintiffs came into office as members of the football federation through an election conducted on August 26, 2010 into the executive committee and congress of NFF.
Earlier on Aug. 6, as a result of a misunderstanding among some stakeholders in the football administration, suit number FHC/L/CS/962/2010 was filed before the Lagos division of the court by the NANF against the NFF.
The court, therefore, made an order on September 7, 2010 directing that the first defendant (the police) to remove the plaintiffs from all elective offices.
In order to arrest the drift to total collapse of the football administration in the country, a body of stakeholders, which included the plaintiffs and the defendants arrived at resolutions on Oct. 23, leading to the withdrawal of the suit.
Pursuant to the resolutions, the plaintiffs filed Notice of Discontinuance of the suit on Oct.25.
In view of the notice, the trial court on Oct. 25, struck out the suit.
Subsequent to the striking out of the suit, a fresh round of misunderstanding erupted between the parties to the suit and the plaintiff (NANF) moved the court by motion ex parte to re-list the suit.
The matter has been was adjourned till June 17 for hearing.
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Court restrains police from arresting Maigari, 10 others
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An Abuja Federal High Court yesterday granted the Alhaji Aminu Maigari led leadership of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), an interim injunction restraining the police from arresting its members.
Chief Akin Olujinmi, (SAN), counsel to Maigari and 10 other officials approached the court with an exparte motion seeking an injunction to bar the police from arresting or threatening to arrest the plaintiffs.Delivering the ruling, Justice Adamu Bello held that the defendants, by themselves, and all officers, servants and functionaries of the Nigeria Police Force were barred from inviting or arresting the plaintiffs on account of alleged violation of a court order.
Bello said that the injunction would subsist pending the determination of the motion on notice filed by the Registered Trustees of the National Association of Nigeria Footballers (NANF).
The other plaintiffs are: Mike Umeh; Johnson Effiong; Christopher Green; Emmanuel Adepoju; Deji Tinubu; Shehu Adamu, Felix Anyansi-Agwu as well as Muazu Suleiman.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the Inspector-General of Police (IG) Hafiz Ringim and Jubril Adeniji, a Commissioner of Police are listed as the defendant and respondent respectively.
The NANF had on September 7, 2010 obtained a judgment of a Federal High Court annulling the elections that brought the plaintiffs to power.
The judgment further declared that the plaintiff must stop parading themselves as officials of the federation forthwith.
The plaintiffs came into office as members of the football federation through an election conducted on August 26, 2010 into the executive committee and congress of NFF.
Earlier on Aug. 6, as a result of a misunderstanding among some stakeholders in the football administration, suit number FHC/L/CS/962/2010 was filed before the Lagos division of the court by the NANF against the NFF.
The court, therefore, made an order on September 7, 2010 directing that the first defendant (the police) to remove the plaintiffs from all elective offices.
In order to arrest the drift to total collapse of the football administration in the country, a body of stakeholders, which included the plaintiffs and the defendants arrived at resolutions on Oct. 23, leading to the withdrawal of the suit.
Pursuant to the resolutions, the plaintiffs filed Notice of Discontinuance of the suit on Oct.25.
In view of the notice, the trial court on Oct. 25, struck out the suit.
Subsequent to the striking out of the suit, a fresh round of misunderstanding erupted between the parties to the suit and the plaintiff (NANF) moved the court by motion ex parte to re-list the suit.
The matter has been was adjourned till June 17 for hearing.