The Nigerian Police Force was prevented by the Federal High Court in Abuja from using a DNA test result as proof in a paternity case involving Hadiza Baffa and Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, the former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs.
Turaki filed an ex-parte motion contesting Baffa’s claims that he is the father of her child, and the court issued the order in response.
Following Baffa’s earlier police petition, Turaki was arraigned at an Abuja Magistrate Court on February 6, 2025, on charges of adultery, false marriage, and criminal intimidation under the Penal Code.
Turaki requested that the court prohibit the police, the Inspector General of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police Rita Oki Oyintare, and Baffa from presenting or relying on any DNA test results purportedly obtained on November 5, 2024, in his application, which was filed under the file number FHC/ABJ/CS/244/2025.
He claimed that on June 24, 2024, he had already filed a related lawsuit against Baffa—CV/35/2024—in order to obtain a ruling that would permanently prevent her from asserting that she was his wife or that her child was his.
Turaki also informed the court that Baffa had filed multiple police petitions regarding the issue.
According to him, “despite the ongoing case in court, I was invited by DCP Oyintare and pressured to submit to a DNA test to prove the paternity of Baffa’s daughter.”
The court granted the interim injunction, effectively halting the police from using the DNA result until the substantive case is heard.
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