The Bauchi State High Court has ordered a serving Commissioner for water resources, Abdulrazak Zaki and the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Auwal, to explain why the court should not commit them to prison for violating its orders.

The presiding judge, Justice Mukhtar Abubakar, in a ruling dated January 24, 2025, whose Certified True Copy was obtained by our correspondent on Friday, warned the duo against disobeying the court.

He declared, ?Take notice that unless you obey the direction contained in the order of this honourable court holden at Bauchi, you will be guilty of contempt, and you will be liable to be committed to prison?.

In the suit number dated BA/1189/2023, the plaintiff, Iklima Soro, accused the Commissioner of Police before the court of using policemen to harass and intimidate against the order of the court.

Abdulrazak Nuhu is accused of hiring ?Sara suka? thugs to invade the house of his ex-wife, Ikilima Manu Soro, two months ago despite the state high court ruling mandating parties to maintain the status quo until the final determination of the case subsisting before the Sharia court.

The couple, who separated when the wife was 7 months pregnant, has been contesting the custodial right of their daughter.

Abdulrazak Nuhu is further accused by his ex-wife of intercepting the Madinah school bus on the morning of 20th January 2025, waylaying the driver of the bus and school nanny to forcefully abduct an 8-year old school girl, Zainab, using a covered plate number car alongside two masked security agents.

The abduction Incident that occurred within the GRA area of Bauchi left other school pupils on the bus traumatised.

Two weeks after the abduction, the little girl has yet to resume her school, and her whereabouts are unknown to her mother.

Furious that its order had been violated, the court accused the two defendants of court contempt. (The PUNCH)

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