Anambra State Ministry of Justice has frowned at the rate policemen disobey court orders in the state.

Consequently, it has written Police Commissioner Echeng Echeng to address the situation.

Also, the ministry has directed the CP to order two of his men to appear in court to testify in a matter they are prosecuting.

The petition followed the failure of the two policemen to appear at a Magistrates’ Court sitting at Nanka in Orumba North Local Government on May 24.

The court had equally issued a bench warrant against the two policemen (Paul Aigbogun and Baba Etta, a Sergeant and a Chief Superintendent of Police).

They were summoned to appear in court on August 2 to testify in suit NO AJMC/338C/2019 (COP vs Kingsley Chinedu Iloduba), but they failed to obey the order of the court.

A bench warrant addressed to the CP and other police officers was made available to reporters yesterday in Awka.

In a memo signed by a Principal State Counsel, I. J. Oguejiofor, for the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, the Commissioner of Police was also asked to cause the two police officers to appear in court to give evidence in the matter.

When the attention of police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu was drawn to it yesterday, he said he had not sighted the letter.

However, he assured that the command would get to the root of the matter.

Some residents have been complaining about consistent and reckless way and manner court orders, rulings and judgments were being ignored by the police command.

Speaking with The Nation yesterday, an industrialist, Chief Ben Ezeibe, said the police leadership in the state should sit up.

He said such disregard for court orders does not augur well in a constitutional democracy. (The Nation)

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