By Awwal Umar Kontagora The Federal High Court in Minna has ordered the Nigeria Police to pay the sum of five hundred thousand naira (500,...
By Awwal Umar Kontagora
The Federal High Court in Minna has ordered the Nigeria Police to pay the sum of five hundred thousand naira (500,000) as aggravated and exemplary damages to Comrade Shafiyi Ladan Maishera.
This follows a judgment delivered against the Inspector General of Police, Niger State Commissioner of Police Command, and DSP Aliyu Kuta Ahmed.
Justice Aminu Mohammed, who delivered the judgment in a suit filed by Shafiyi Ladan Maishera with suit number FHC/MN/CS/17/2022 through his lawyer Barrister Mohammed Tsado Mohammed, declared that the arrest and detention of Shafiyi Maishera for three days by DSP Aliyu Kuta Ahmed (now SP) "is unlawful, unconstitutional, null, and void."
Justice Mohammed further declared that the action of the applicant to remove the sum of N880,000 association's money in the custody of the applicant by the third respondent is illegal, non-statutory, and unconstitutional. "An order is hereby granted awarding against the respondents the sum of (N500,000) Five Hundred Thousand Naira as aggravated and exemplary damages."
"An order is hereby granted restraining the first, second, third, and fifth respondents from further arresting, detaining, inviting, beating, or degrading treatment of any kind in relation to the case of Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycles Owners Repairs Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN), pending the determination of this suit in any court of competent jurisdiction," Justice Aminu held.
Comrade Shafiyi Ladan Maishera approached the Federal High Court on March 24, 2022, praying for nine reliefs through a motion on notice, which included declaring his arrest, beating, humiliation, and detention for three days by the respondents as unlawful, unconstitutional, null, and void.
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