Court Dismisses Suit By Two Pastors Against NSCDC

The high court sitting in Ilorin has dismissed a fundamental human right enforcement suit brought before it by two embattled pastors of the Evidence of Christ Fellowship International Church, Agbooba, Ilorin.

It will be recalled that the duo of pastors Olumide Peter and Jesulayomi Adetola of the above church had dragged Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps,to the state high court challenging the corps’ decision to prefer charges against them before justice I. A Dasuki of the magistrate’s court.

According to the spokesman of the NSCDC in Kwara State Babawale Zaid Afolabi, NSCDC had in January 2020 brought charges against the two pastors bordering on criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly, wrongful confinement of the minors among others.

But Justice Yusuf of the state high court has dismissed their fundamental enforcement suit. The judge held that their entire suit lacked merit and it was time wasting and exercise in futility thereby asked them to go and face their trial at the magistrate court.

The judge also awarded the sum of thirty ( 30,000) thousand naira to be paid to the NSCDC by the complainants for time wasting.

Counsel to the NSCDC Barrister Kehinde Ajide confirmed the judgement, adding that the corps would now continue with their charges against the pastors.

Edited by Felix Ajide

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