Court Seeks Police Assistance To Reinstate Tokyo As Oyo NURTW Chairman

An end may not be in sight to the crisis rocking the Oyo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), as the Federal  High Court sitting  in Ibadan , the Oyo State capital,  has ordered the  state Police Command  to re-instate  Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (a.k. a. Tokyo), as the chairman of the union  in compliance with the judgement of the court.

 In a  letter dated 3^rd September, 2012  and signed by A.A. Tahir, Deputy Chief Registrar of the court, it  urged  the police to implement the court judgement delivered by Justice Johnson Shakarho on 25^th May, 2012.

 The letter which was addressed to the state Commissioner of Police and copied the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Zone 11,  titled,  “Application for Police Assistance in respect of the execution of court order in suit number FHC/IB/CS/30/2012”,   stated, “ kindly avail the bailiff of this Honourable  Court  with the police assistant in executing the court judgement delivered by this Honourable Court on 25^th  May 2012.”

 It will be recalled that Justice Shakarho  in a judgement delivered on the 25^th May, 2012,  declared that the proscription of the National Union Road Transport Workers in Oyo State was a violation of  Tokyo’s fundamental human rights as enshrined in section 33, 40, and 42 of the 1999 constitution and article 3, 4, 5, 10 and 22 of the African chapter of human and people’s  rights.”

The judge then  declared  his  removal  as the chairman of the union in the state,  “as ultra vires, unconstitutional, null and void, as NURTW is a trade Union Registered under the trade Union  Act cap t14 LFN 2004.”