JUSTICE Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today ruled that the Nigerian senate did not
provide vital instruments to justify the warrant of arrest issued against Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, the chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force.
In a one hour judgment, Justice Adamu Bello said that the order failed to comply with section 88 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, holding that the respondents failed to make available the National Assembly journal or any official government gazette highlighting the process leading to the issuance of the warrant for Mr. Mr. Maina’s arrest.
The lack of the said documents, said Bello, showed that the issuance of the warrant, in view of the absence of the verifiable documents, may not have evolved from a due process.
He, therefore, restrained the senate, the police or any such designated agency from trying to arrest Maina, who is still at large, in relation to his failure to appear before the National Assembly in regards to the deep-seated rot in Nigeria’s pension administration.
Although Maina was not personally available in court, the judge vacated the warrant order for his arrest, as approved by the senate.