{"id":325432,"date":"2011-03-20T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/20\/court-orders-arrest-of-chief-3-others-for-assaulting-bailiff\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:38:08","slug":"court-orders-arrest-of-chief-3-others-for-assaulting-bailiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/court-orders-arrest-of-chief-3-others-for-assaulting-bailiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders arrest of chief, 3 others for assaulting bailiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"73.9759791123\">\n<p><strong>By George Onah<\/strong><br \/>A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has ordered the arrest and detention in Port Harcourt Prison of Chief Samuel Osarejor and three other persons over alleged manhandling of a court bailiff, who was assigned to serve a court order on them.<\/p>\n<p>Trial judge in the matter, Justice J. Kogbani, made the order following an earlier interim order of the\u00a0 court,\u00a0 restraining Osarejor and others from parading themselves as executives of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, of the Port Harcourt Refinery Depot.<\/p>\n<p>IPMAN\u2019s executive, Simeon Monokpo and others had alleged in a petition to the Inspector General of Police, that their lives were being threatened. They had also alleged that there was a threat to commit acts of economic sabotage and threat to peace, law and order at the depot by Osarejor and his group.<\/p>\n<p>Consequent upon the petition, the IG directed the Commissioner of Police in the state to act, while Monokpo and some IPMAN members approached the court for an order to\u00a0 restrain Osarejor and his group from parading themselves executives of the association.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the course of serving the order, the bailiff Mr. Godwin Yakor and the IPMAN members were allegedly attacked and beaten up on the orders of Chief Osarejor and others, prompting the directive of the high court to arrest and dump the men in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Further to this, Monokpo has appealed to the police to act fast and protect them as other members of the said parallel executive of the association have \u201cvowed to eliminate us and members of our families wherever they are\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are law abiding citizens of this country and we look up to the government and police to save us from those who are bent on destroying our lives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Comments are moderated. 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