Former Delta Attorney General, Mrakpor Risk Jail Terms on alleged Faked Warrant of Arrest, If...
Former Delta State Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Peter Mrakpor, may risk years of jail terms over faked warrant that allegedly emanate from his office to arrest the former Minister of State for education and Delta State 2023 governorship aspirant, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi.
Recall that in September last year, Mrakpor was acaused of counterfiting a warrant of arrest against Gbagi, In a calculated bid to tarnish his image and derail his governorship ambition.
After a rigorous legal process, Gbagi's innocence was established with a shocking discovery of the warrant of arrest that was suspected to have emanated from the former attorney general's office with no name of the magistrate that signed the arrest warrant; no jurisdiction of where this warrant of arrest was coming from; and nobody swore to the affidavit of the warrant of arrest.
According to the Federal High Court that sat in Abuja with the presiding judge, Hon. Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo in a judgement delivered on the 8th of March 2022, exonerated Gbagi and ordered the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, Delta State Commissioner of Police, Ari Muhammed Ali, his predecessor, Hafiz Muhammed Inuwa and the former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Peter Mrakpor to publish an unreserved apology through ThisDay Newspapers and Daily Sun for violating the rights of the former minister of education and leading governorship aspirant.
It was also gathered that all was not over, the former Attorney General may lose his position as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN and risk jail term over the said warrant, if the applicant, Gbagi proceed with further legal actions.
According to the court, order (8) stated that the directives contained in the said warrant were a violation of the order of the court.Going further, it stated that the respondents, which Mrakpor was the 4th, took definitive steps to contravene the fundamental rights of Gbagi.
The court also find out that "The purported warrant of arrest is devoid of details on the face of it. The name of the magistrate is missing, and the magisterial district did not endorse it"
The judge in the judgement maintained that the warrant cannot be shown to have complied with section 38 of the Delta State administration of criminal justice law, 2017 which stated thus;
"A warrant of arrest shall not be issued in the first instance in respect of any complaint or statement unless the complaint or statement is on oath either by complaint himself or by a material witness".
Mrakpor through his said, "The office of the Attorney General has nothing to do with arrest warrants, The matter I am told is on appeal".
