The Attorney-General of Jigawa state and Commissioner of Justice, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, has dragged the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), its President, Mr Olumide Akpata and five others before a High Court of Justice in the state.
In the suit dated November 9, 2021, the plaintiff, through his Counsel, Abdurrahman Mukhtar Abdullahi Esq., is praying the court to set aside report of fact-finding committee of the NBA and stop the implementation of the report against the plaintiff.
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In the report, the NBA fact finding committee was said to have found the commissioner of justice guilty of abuse of office, after a petition was written against him by two staff of the Jigawa State Ministry of Justice, Nuhu Suleiman Tafida, Esq. and Adamu Mukhtar Esq.
The plaintiff averred that the NBA fact finding committee lacked the legal backing to investigate him or assume the disciplinary powers of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee.
Other defendants in the suit are John Aikpokpo-Martins Esq., Godwin Omoka, SAN, Ahmed Uwais Esq., Mustapha Imam Esq and Abdulrahman Bello El-Ibrani Esq.
Dr Aliyu, maintained that the, ”The act complained of and sought to be reviewed/reversed was done by the Claimant in his capacity as a commissioner duly appointed by the Governor of Jigawa State and is subject to the relevant civil service rules applicable to civil servants in the service of Jigawa State;
”Allegation(s) of abuse of office against a public servant can only be entertained and determined by the Code of Conduct Tribunal in line with Paragraphs 9 ,12 and 18(1) to the Fifth Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended);
”Allegations of suspension and removal from office of an employee can only be entertained by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria.”
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