by Topsy Oba
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, will, tomorrow, know his fate in the bid by an Abuja-based aggrieved property owner to get him committed to prison for allegedly disobeying and disregarding an Abuja High Court order. Justice Danlami Senchi of an Abuja High Court will rule on whether the Minister and four others have a case to answer in the committal to prison charges brought against them.
Others charged with contempt along with the Minister are former Director of Land in the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Mrs. Altine Jibrin, Mrs. Ene Dakoru, Alhaji Yahaya Musa and the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA. The Minister, who was dragged to the court with the four others on contempt charges for allegedly demolishing a multi-million naira hospital property in spite of an existing court judgment, had applied that the contempt charge against him be struck out because he was not properly served with the court summon on the contempt charge. Bala, through his counsel, Chidi Agashiese, told Justice Senchi that the contempt charge was served on him through a substituted service involving a newspaper publication as against the personal service required by law.
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