The Kaduna High Court has convicted the former commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, Major General Mohammed Idris and two others, for unlawfully employing armed NDA personnel to wrest possession of court-attached properties.
Justice Nasiru Umar Sada also dismissed preliminary objection by the former commandant’s lawyer, Mr. Biola Oyebanji, and found the three in contempt based on earlier summons on them to show cause why they should not be jailed.
The court, however, ordered the trio to be of good behaviour and to vacate possession of properties at Nos 11 and 36, Gongola Road, Barnawa, Kaduna, forthwith.
The two benefitting widows of former civilian members of staff of NDA who leased federal government properties had won their respective cases against NDA at Kaduna High Court on April 10, 2014, but had to wait for one year before the court execution of judgement.
The three convicted contemnors allegedly employed self-help on May 21, this year to dispossess court officials of custody of these houses after execution was levied.
Speaking to our correspondent, lawyer to the widows, Mr Lekan Oyerinde, while expressing satisfaction with the court for redeeming its integrity, urged NDA to come to terms with a legitimate federal transaction of which it could not, as part of federal institution, reverse.
Source;Leadership News
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