A retired chief superintendent of police (CSP),Carol Afegbai, sued the Edo State Judicial Commission of Inquiry for Victims of SARS and Related Abuse for issuing an arrest warrant against her after she failed to appear before it.
Recall that the panel ordered the arrest of Ms. Afegbai for not appearing before him. The panel summoned Ms. Afegbai for her alleged complicity in the murder of Ibrahim Momodu, a student at the University of Benin, in 2015.
She was the divisional police officer at the Ogida Police Station in Benin City when Mr. Momodu, a 500-level student at the Faculty of Laboratory Sciences, was killed near his family home at No.1 St. Igbobaewaye, near Siluko Road, near the junction of the textile factory.
The chairperson of the panel, Ada Ehigiamusoe, had, while issuing the arrest order, said, “It is of the view therefore of this panel that the respondent having failed to appear before the said panel, a warrant of arrest should be issued against her to appear before the said panel.”
She added, “Accordingly, it is hereby ordered that a warrant of arrest be issued forthwith on the said respondent who is named Carol Afegbai who shall appear before this panel following the order of this panel on the 9th day of December 2020.”
However, when the panel resumed hearing on Wednesday, Mrs Ehigiamusoe, a retired judge, told Jefferson Uwoghiren, counsel to the family of late Mr Momodu, that the panel had been served a court paper from the High Court restraining it from inviting Mrs Afegbai.
Mrs Ehigiamusoe disclosed that the panel would honour the court’s restraining order to demonstrate to Nigerians that the panel has respect for the nation’s judiciary.
Reacting to the development, Mr Uwoghiren described the action of Mrs Afegbai as an ambush.
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