The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, has demanded N500 million in damages from the National Drug Control Agency (NDLEA) for alleged illegal arrests and detentions.
Mr. Kyari, in an initial motion for notice marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, filed before Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, also requested an order for the NDLEA to provide him with a written apology in two diaries
The motion, dated February 16 and filed on February 17 by his attorney, CO Ikena, also sought a “restraining order from Defendant (NDLEA), their agents, servants, privates, police, or anyone acting on their behalf. to continue harassing, detaining, intimidating, illegally arresting the applicant.
“An order of this court directing the defendant to pay the sum of N500,000,000.00 (Five Hundred Million Naira) to the applicant, for unlawful violation of the constitutional right of the applicant provided for in Sections 35 and 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (modified).”
In the motion to assert his fundamental rights, Mr. Kyari also requested a declaration that his arrest and continued detention by the NDLEA “without bringing him before a court of competent jurisdiction from February 12 to date is unlawful, illegal and a serious violation of their fundamental rights
He said that his personal liberty and freedom of movement are guaranteed by Section 35(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Article 6 of the African Charter of Human and Rights Rights Act. Peoples (Ratification and Compliance).
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Their sentences read: “A statement that advertising the applicant in the press without giving him the right to a fair hearing or establishing a prima-facie case against him is unlawful, unlawful and a violation of his fundamental right.
“A statement that declaring the applicant a union of the suspect without establishing a prima facie case against the applicant is illegal and a violation of their fundamental right.
“A statement that the torture, degrading and inhumane treatment given to the applicant by the respondent’s agent is unlawful, unlawful and a violation of the applicant’s fundamental human right.
“A statement that the refusal to grant the applicant administrative bail for an alleged bailable offense is unlawful and an infringement of the applicant’s fundamental human rights.”