BY AGENCY REPORTER
A High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja, has awarded N50 million damages against the Nigerian Police for arresting and detaining Ngozi Umeadi, an activist of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
According to Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the court also ordered the unconditional release of Umeadi with a public apology.
Ejiofor said that the judgement, delivered by Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi of Court 28, Gudu Judicial Division, Abuja, was a pointer to the fact that the judiciary was the purview of truth and fairness.
The lawyer had filed a fundamental rights suit to challenge what he described as the illegal arrest, torture and continued detention of Umeadi since February 2021.
Osho-Adebiyi declared her arrest and continued detention by the security operatives as “illegal, and a gross violation of her Fundamental Human Rights.”
The judge awarded exemplary and aggravated damages of N50 million damages against the police as reparation, adding that the police should also “tender an unreserved apology to Ngozi Umeadi in two national dailies.”
