House of Representatives member-elect for Ideato Federal Constituency, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has asked a High Court in Abuja to try the Imo State Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde, for alleged contempt of court.

An Abuja High Court had earlier this year granted an order restraining the Imo State Governor, the Nigerian Police, Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of Police, Imo State; and the State Security Service from inviting, investigating, arresting or detaining the opposition coalition spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere.

But the Imo State Police Command had in March invited Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere for investigation over alleged offences of murder, terrorism and arson 

In reaction to the invitation by the police, Ugochinyere applied to the court to issue Form 48 and 49 which are for commencement of committal proceedings for contempt of court.

The court, presided over by Honourable Justice A. S. Adepoju, while agreeing with Ugochinyere, ordered that the forms against the Commissioner of Police, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Usman Baba Alkali and the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Admin) Ukachi Opara be served on them through substituted means by delivering them to the Legal Department, or any officer or member of staff of the Nigeria Police Force at its headquarters, Louis Edet House, Abuja.

The CP is expected to appear in court on the next adjourned date, to answer to the charges.