By Atinuke Alao
This is certainly not the best of time for the Commandant of Kwara State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mohammed Nda Abbas, following a court ruling on Wednesday ordering his arrest for contempt.
A Chief Magistrate, Adebayo Dupe, of an Ilorin Magistrate Court, ordered the state Commissioner of Police, Adekimi Ojo, to pick up the NSCDC commandant and produce him in court on June 10, 2026 due to his failure to appear in court in a case involving two operatives of the corps, who allegedly assaulted a lawyer, Abdullateef Nurudeen Aladodo.
Wind Gate News reports that the court had ordered the appearance of NSCDC boss in the suit filed against the two civil defenders, Ajayi Williams Gbolahan and Busari Babatunde.
The order was sequel to the application filed by Counsel to Aladodo, who allegedly suffered assault in the hands of NSCDC men.
Counsel for the complainant, Prof. D.A. Ariyo-Osu, told the court that the NSCDC commandant had failed to comply with earlier orders directing him to produce the defendants and personally appear before the court.
Ariyo-Osu argued that, “The commandant’s actions are contemptuous and disrespectful, having ignored both the order to produce the defendants and the order directing him to appear before this honourable court.”
He urged the court to issue a warrant for the arrest of the NSCDC boss for allegedly disregarding lawful directives of the court.
Responding, counsel for the NSCDC officers, A. Imam, informed the court that the command had petitioned the office of the Kwara State Chief Judge for a reassignment of the matter.
Imam said the request for reassignment was based on what he described as a loss of confidence in the court handling the case.
He said, “We have petitioned the office of the Honourable Chief Judge for reassignment of the matter because the command has lost confidence in the court.”
Dupe, in a ruling, ordered the state Commissioner of Police to arrest and produce the NSCDC commandant in court on June 10, 2026.
According to Punch, the case stemmed from a direct criminal complaint the Ilorin branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) instituted against the two NSCDC officers over the alleged assault on Aladodo at the NSCDC office, Ilorin.
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