A Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri, yesterday, ordered the Military Joint Force, JTF, to produce a Boko Haram suspect, one Goni Ali, who had been detained in the last three months, within 48 hours or face the wrath of the court.
The court, presided over by Justice Alkali Wakil, gave the order while delivering a ruling on a motion in the suit number BOHC/MG/ CV/ 243M/2011, between Goni Ali and eight others.
Respondents in the suit include all the security agencies that make up JTF.
Justice Wakil expressed sadness that though JTF had earlier been served with a court order on the matter, it failed to obey the directives.
Goni was allegedly arrested in connection with the assassination of a former legislator representing Konduga Local Government Constituency by unknown gunmen in October last year.
JTF claimed that the suspect was the last person who spoke with the former lawmaker on the telephone before he was killed according to the late legislator’s call log.
However, in his ruling, Justice Wakil said: “After considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the applicant, Mr A. Alfa, it is hereby ordered that the said Goni Ali be brought to this court within 48 hours.”
Justice Wakil further directed the respondents to charge the applicant to court, failing which the court would make further necessary orders on the matter.
Wakil remarked that the court was not happy over “the contemptuous’’ behaviour of the respondents as all the “parties have been served,’’ and ‘’there is proof of service but none of them had the courtesy to even write or send a representative to state why they were not present in court.”
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