Sonnie Ekwowusi, a authorized practitioner, has expressed concern over the Nigeria Police Pressure’s intervention in settling doctor-patient debt disputes, arguing that such actions lack authorized backing. He stated the Police don’t have any statutory energy or constitutional proper to adjudicate in civil disputes arising from debt owed to medical docs by sufferers.

He stated he presently faces the specter of an arrest from an officer with the State Felony Investigation and Intelligence Division (SCIID) Panti, Yaba, Lagos over a swimsuit some medical docs filed in opposition to Panti  Police and the Federal Excessive Courtroom in federal for delving right into a dispute between a medical physician and his affected person.

“I’ve advised the officer that our purchasers have approached the courtroom and that by advantage of Part 6(6) of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Nigeria Police has no statutory or constitutional proper to usurp the perform of the courtroom and adjudicate on civil disputes between the residents,” Ekwowusi stated in an announcement.

“We should put a cease to blatant illegality that has taken Nigeria’s administration of our legal justice system hostage,” Ekwowusi referred to as on the Inspector Basic of Police, Kayode Egbetokun to name his males to order in keeping with the Regulation.