The Magistrate Court 11 sitting Gusau, Zamfara State has ordered bench arrest of two operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC for abscondment.
The arrest was ordered by the presiding Senior Magistrate, Malam Aminu Sani.
The Senior Magistrate adhered to the prayers by the Counsel to the plaintiff, Surajo Garba Gusau who earlier told the court the legal need for the two accused NSCDC personnel to appear before the court in person.
The bench order by the court came after several disappearances of the accused officers, especially as their participation in persons became necessary before the court for uninterrupted legal proceedings by the court.
The Counsel to the plaintiff maintained that the two absconders were among the five accused persons arraigned before the court over the charges of break of shop and theft belonging to his client, Yusha’u Aliyu.
Gusau also challenged the prayer by the Counsel to the Defense for the court to discharge the case as his clients are civil servants whose actions under the umbrella of the state government should be considered above any law.
According to Gusau, only the President and his Vice, Governors and their Deputies could enjoy section 308 of the 1999 constitution as amended that formidably offered immunity for them while in office.
The legal luminary said the Counsel to the Defense could not quote any section of the Nigerian constitution upon which he relied to have presented a request for the court to discharge the case.
Recalled that Senior staffers of the Zamfara Urban and Regional Planning, ZUREP alongside two operatives of the NSCDC, had been arraigned before the Magistrate Court II Gusau under the charges of alleged burglary and theft.
The case was, however, adjourned to the 15th of January for ruling over prayers by the two parties.
