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Rights Violation: Abiola’s Widow Wins N50m Damages Against Police

by Kunle Olasanmi
1 year ago
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A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja, has ordered the inspector-general of police (IGP) to pay N50 million damages to Prof Zainab Duke Abiola, widow of the former philanthropist and winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola.

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The court made the order following the violation of her fundamental human rights.

Zainab Abiola had filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit marked FCT/HC/CV/2431/2023 against the IGP and named the Nigeria Police Force, Inspector Teju Moses and Engineer Ibrahim (son of former IGP Usman Alkali Baba) as co-defendants to the suit.

The plaintiff also demanded for N500 million damages from the defendants for the infringement on her rights.

Mrs Abiola had alleged amongst others that she was arrested in her nightgown, tortured and detained by officers and men of the IGP.

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She added that her detention between September 20 and September 23, 2022 without charging her to court was a violation of her rights, saying that the action of the defendants was unlawful and unconstitutional.

But the police and other defendants later opposed the fundamental rights enforcement suit and joined issues with Mrs Abiola.

The defendants further claimed that they did not know Mrs Abiola while the plaintiff produced evidence before the court that she was appointed by the police as the chief legal consultant (CLC).

Delivering her judgement after listening to the parties, Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi held that the detention of Mrs Abiola by the defendants without arraigning her in court of competent jurisdiction was a gross violation of her right to personal liberty.

The judge further directed the IGP and other three defendants to tender a public apology to Mrs Abiola in two of the national newspapers in pursuance of Section 35 (6) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

In the certified true copy of enrolled order of the judgement dated November 29, 2023, with the official stamp on December 19, 2023 and made available on Thursday, Justice Osho-Adebiyi held, “It is hereby declared that the detention of the Applicant from the 20th day of September, 2022 to 23rd September, 2022, without arraigning her before a court of competent jurisdiction is a violation of the Applicant’s right to personal liberty under section 35 of the constitution and is therefore unlawful and unconstitutional.

“It is further declared that the arrest of the applicant by the defendants in her nightgown without giving her the opportunity to dress decently is an Infringement of her right to personal dignity it is more debasing and a further Infringement of her right to personal dignity when applicant was paraded in her nightgown. In the circumstances, the sum of N50 million is awarded to the applicant as compensation against the 1’, 2., and 4” respondents jointly.”

 


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