A Bauchi Chief Magistrate Court 12, has ordered for the arrest and detention of 5 top management staff of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi, for contempt of the court orders following their refusal to appear before the court. Chief Magistrate Hajiya Safiya Salihu on Wednesday issued a warrant of arrest of the five top management staff of the University who include the Dean Faculty of Management Sciences, Dr S.I Ningi, Deputy Dean the Faculty, Dr Umar Usman, Director General Studies (GNS) Faculty of Management Sciences, Dr Babangida Yerima, Head of Department [Draft] Faculty of Management, Dr Y.B Maiwada and Head of Department (DMTT) Faculty of Management, Dr Tijjani Abubakar respectively. The document also states that the accused persons further alleged in the petition that the complainant had pronounced how he intended to eliminate ‘his enemies and propagated campaign of calumny on some staff and the faculty as a whole’. Our correspondent however gathered that Counsel to the defendants, Barrister S.D Idrees told the Magistrate that his clients lost confidence in her to be impartial which led to the transfer of the case to another Magistrate Court number four, Federal Low-Cost Bauchi. Meanwhile, the defendants also secured a restraining order from Bauchi state high court 5 which stopped the police from arresting and remanding the ATBU management officers as ordered by the lower court.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 20, 2018 08:26 UTC