Ali-Maishanu: Court Adjourns case to February 8
By Chima Azubuike
The Chief Magistrate Court of Bogo Court VIII, His Worship Japheth Maida, has adjourned the case involving Musa Ali-Maishanu, and Commissioner of Police, to Wednesday 8th of February 2023.
Ali-Maishanu, the Regional Coordinator of an International Non-Governmental Organisation, Global Pan-Africanism Network Nigeria (GPAN), who is on bail, was initially detained by Department of Security Services (DSS), and arraigned by the police for threatening to organise a protest against the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
He was allegedly said to have threatened NAPTIP with protest for refusing to treat with justice a case of a 27-year-old woman, Hauwa’u Musa, popularly known as ‘Ladidi,’ who was taken from the state since she was underaged to Adamawa, married off, when she became an adult without the consent of her mother.
Recall that counsel to the defendant Barr. Ibrahim Ambore-Nuhu, had earlier in a motion dated 12th December 2022, sought for an order of the court striking out the case for want of diligent prosecution.
Our Correspondent reports that the legal tussle which has lingered since 2022, on 1st February 2023 there was no counter affidavit from the side of the state counsel Barr. Musa Adamu Kumo, representing the Commissioner of Police.
There was no counter to Ambore-Nuhu’s application, as Kumo, didn’t file counter.
However, there was adoption to processes entered by Ali-Maishanu’s lawyer without counter to the motion.
