Ali Haruna Abbah, a farmer from Kafanchan, is embroiled in a disagreement with his Indian business partner Sajith Madhu. A Kano State High Court sitting on Miller Road, Kano, has issued an injunction preventing the Nigerian Police Force and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from detaining or arresting Abbah.
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Under Justice Fatima Adamu’s presiding, the court also approved Mr. Abbah’s motion to add the Nigerian Police Force, the Inspector General of Police, and the Commissioner of the Police Force Intelligence Department as respondents number four through six in the case.
On June 5, the applicant’s legal counsel, Tijjani Abdulkareem Abdullahi, submitted an ex parte motion, and the judge granted the relief, according to court documents sighted by DAILY POST on Tuesday.
Until the substantive application is heard and decided, the judge further instructed all parties involved in the case (K/M1156/2025) to keep things as they are.
A five-paragraph affidavit and a written address were submitted in support of the ex parte application, which was dated May 30, by Abdullahi Garba, a litigation secretary at the law office of Ibrahim Cheid & Co.
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The request to enlist the Nigeria Police Force, the Inspector General of Police, and the Commissioner of Police Force Intelligence Department as respondents in this suit has been approved.
It is now ordered that the applicant be joined as the fourth, fifth, and sixth respondents in this matter by the Nigeria Police Force, the Inspector General of Police, and the Commissioner of the Police Force Intelligence Department.
In order to keep things as they are until the substantive application is heard and decided, the court has issued an injunction instructing all parties to remain silent. The next scheduled hearing for this matter is July 9, 2025.
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As previously reported by furucinovel, the court had previously issued a restraining order preventing the EFCC from apprehending and prosecuting Mr. Abbah on December 30, 2017.
The court prohibits the anti-graft agency from “either by themselves, their agents, servants, or privies, however described, from any act(s) of arresting and/or detaining the applicant pending the hearing and determination of the substantive application, i.e., Motion on Notice,” according to a vacation court ruling handed down by Jamilu Suleiman.
While the substantive application is being heard and decided, the applicant was granted an interim injunction that restrained the respondents, “either by themselves, their agents, servants, or privies howsoever described, from any act(s) of interference with the applicant’s business transaction with the 1st respondent in respect of ginger products.”
Mr. Abbah and Mr. Madhu’s company, Nostro Trading Company, are at odds over a business transaction, which is the basis for the lawsuit.
An alienated business partner was allegedly blackmailed, threatened, harassed, and intimidated by Abbah’s security detail. At the moment of this report’s publishing, neither the EFCC nor the police nor Mr. Madhu had responded to questions.