By Kehinde Osasona
Abuja
Despite a subsisting court order restraining it from carrying out any arrest, the officers of the Nigerian Police Tuesday February 17, 2026 at about 7.30 pm invaded a hospital in Abuja and insisted on arresting one Akpa Achema Stephen an in-patient of the hospital despite the subsistence of a binding court order.
In a court order sighted by our correspondent, Achema had secured a restraining order from the High court, prohibiting the Nigeria police force, the Inspector General of police and others from arresting him.
In a medical report issued by the hospital on 10th February 2026, the hospital had further informed that the patient was recently diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder and a known patient with peptic ulcer disease on treatment.
The report also reads, ‘that the patient was brought in from police detention with compliant of bloody stool. Reports reaching us indicate that the hospital staff informed the police that his health is in dire condition.
But the policemen are insisting on taking him away. In a phone chat with a human rights lawyer privy to the matter, Marshal Abubakar, he informed this medium that the right to life of the in-patient must be respected as only a person that’s alive that can stand trial.
On the court order, he stated that the police are not above the law and they must respect a subsisting binding order of Court.
He equally stated that the Inspector General of police, Kayode Egbetokun, must be held responsible if anything happens to the in-patient
