Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja on Tuesday restrained the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) from tendering a DNA test result against Kabiru Turaki, former Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs Minister.
Turaki is involved in a paternity dispute with a lady, Hadiza Baffa.
Justice Ekwo gave the order after counsel for the NPF, Inspector-General of Police and DCP Rita Oki Oyintare, M.L Anthony, who are 1st to 3rd respondents respectively, sought an adjournment to enable them to comply with the earlier court order.
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Turaki, through his lawyer, Abdulaziz Ibrahim (SAN) had told Justice Ekwo that the police were planning to present “the purported DNA test paternity result procured in violation of his fundamental human rights” in a criminal charge filed against him before an FCT Magistrate Court, Abuja.
Justice Ekwo, on February 18, declined the application filed by the former minister, seeking to stop the police from presenting the DNA test result in the paternity dispute with Hadiza in another court.
The judge, in a ruling on an ex-parte motion, moved by Ibrahim, held that he could not grant the relief sought by the former minister without hearing from the respondents.
The judge, therefore, ordered Turaki to put all the respondents in the application on notice within two days of the order and directed the respondents to show cause in the next adjourned date why the prayers sought by the ex-minister should not be granted.
When the matter was called, Ibrahim, who appeared for Turaki, informed the court that the matter was for the respondents to show cause why his client’s prayers should not be granted.
