By: Monday Danladi, Bauchi
One Iklima Manu Adamu Soro has written a petition to the office Inspector General of Police (IGP) over criminal conscipiracy, kidnapping, obstruction of course of justice, and blatant disobedience to Court order against Abdulrazak Nuhu Zaki and an unknown person’s disguised as Officers of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC).
The petition was written on her behalf by a Legal Office Chris Umar SAN and Co based in Abuja signed by Mwansat M. Hirse and dated 22nd January, 2025 copy of which was made available to Journalists in Bauchi on Friday.
The petition reads: “We are solicitors to Iklima Manu Adamu Soro whose address is care of G.R.A, Bauchi, Bauchi Local Government Area, Bauchi State (Hereinafter referred to as Our Client) in whose express instruction this letter of complaint is written to your good office.”
According to the letter, “The genesis of the matter that gave rise to the instant complaint is a dispute over the custody of a child between Abdulrazak Nuhu Zaki (the suspect) and our client whom the former divorced when the baby was 7 months fetus.”
The letter further contained that,”The suspect abandoned the responsibility of his daughter prior to birth until she was 9 years and decided to forcefully take over her custody against the wishes of the child mother and her family and without recourse to any judicial process.”
It further contained that,”The dispute has since been subjected to court litigation after the suspect refused to heed the entreaties of his boss, the Governor of Bauchi State on the matter. The matter is now before the Sharia Court of Appeal while the State High Court has barred the Police from involvement in what the court referred as matrimonial issue. The said order dated the 12th day of August, 2024 is hereby attached for your reference.”
“In a blatant disobedience to extant laws of the land, the suspect invaded the privacy of family of late Alh. Manu Soro, father to serving member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Darazo-Ganjuwa Federal Constituency of Bauchi State, Rep. Mansur Manu Soro on the evening of 2nd December 2024 with “Sara Suka” thugs with the mission to forcefully made his way into the house to carry his daughter, Zainab even when the matter is subsisting before the court, disrupting the peace of the general neighborhood,” It further contained.
According to the legal practitioner, “If not for the effort of one Sani Yakubu, a responsible Police Officer, who acted in line with the provision of section 4 of the Police Act 2020 (as amended) to stop the suspect and his thugs, the suspect would have forcefully invade the house and lay mayhem under whatever guise which might result into loss of lives or injury.”
It added that, “The suspect was thereafter petitioned to the Assistant Inspector General, Zone 12 Command, where the case is still pending. Meanwhile, at the Zone 12 Command, the parties were both asked to maintain status quo pending the outcome of the case before Sharia Court of Appeal and thorough investigation into the matter by the Zone.”
The letter also contained that,”To our client’s shock, the suspect has in the morning of 21st day of January, 2025 conspired to and actually did kidnap Zainab (our client daughter, whose custody is the subject matter of litigation before the Sharia Court of Appeal, Bauchi) on her way to school in her school’s bus.”
It explained that,”The suspect in a commando style, with the help of two unknown persons, wearing the uniforms of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps abducted Zainab against the valid and subsisting order of court without justification.”
The legal office added that, “Sir, the suspect is notorious for his unguarded utterances and threats; in fact, he boosts that he is above the law and has all state agencies in his pocket. Therefore, our client, being a law abiding citizen, forwards this complaint to your office for investigation.”
The legal practitioners are therefore appealing”most respectfully urge you to use your good office and cause this matter to be investigated discreetly and to ensure that the suspect does not escape the long hands of the law.”
“We further urge you to, in line with the inherent powers of the Force proffer charges against him so as to serve as a deterrent to others. Please, accept as always, the assurance of our highest esteem regards to your office while looking forward to seeing the expeditious consideration of this complaint,” It concluded.
