By Innocent Anaba, Abdulwahab Abdulah, & Prince Okafor
•Wants Police barred from arresting, inviting, or detaining him
•Lawyers split as bizman urges Police to ensure he doesn’t return
LAGOS — Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, has for the second day, sued the Inspector General of Police, and three others before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, claiming N300million as damages over his alleged illegal detention.
This came as Police authorities re-emphasised that they had obtained an order from a Federal High Court in Abuja to hold onto him for three months, to allow them conclude investigations into several cases of kidnapping, robberies and murder against the suspect.
Meanwhile, Evans in the new motion filed yesterday, is claiming the sum of N300 million as general and exemplary damages against the Police for alleged illegal detention and unconstitutional media trial.
Respondents in his new motion are the Nigeria Police Force, Commissioner of Police Lagos State, and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Police Command.
It will be recalled that Evans had on June 28, filed an ex-parte application numbered FHC/L/CS/1012/2017, before the same court, seeking an order directing the respondents to charge him to court.
He had also in the alternative, sought an order directing the respondents to release him unconditionally where no charge was preferred against him.
In an affidavit deposed to by his father, Mr Stephen Onwuamadike, he averred that the applicant had been subjected to media trial without any court order by the respondents.
Onwuamadike further averred that the media trial orchestrated by the respondents have continued to generate reactions in both print and electronic media without his son being afforded fair hearing before a court of law.
Continued detention violates my rights — Evans
Evans had contended that his continued detention by the respondents since June 10, without charges, or release on bail is an infringement on his fundamental rights.
In his new suit, also marked FHC/L/CS/1012/ 2017 and bearing similar respondents, the applicant is seeking a declaration that his continued detention since June 10 without arraignment, violates his fundamental rights as guaranteed under the 1999 constitution.
He is also seeking a declaration that his parade on June 11 before journalists in Lagos, at the Lagos police command headquarters in Ikeja, without any court order, is unconstitutional and illegal.
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•Wants Police barred from arresting, inviting, or detaining him
•Lawyers split as bizman urges Police to ensure he doesn’t return
LAGOS — Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, has for the second day, sued the Inspector General of Police, and three others before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, claiming N300million as damages over his alleged illegal detention.
This came as Police authorities re-emphasised that they had obtained an order from a Federal High Court in Abuja to hold onto him for three months, to allow them conclude investigations into several cases of kidnapping, robberies and murder against the suspect.
Meanwhile, Evans in the new motion filed yesterday, is claiming the sum of N300 million as general and exemplary damages against the Police for alleged illegal detention and unconstitutional media trial.
Respondents in his new motion are the Nigeria Police Force, Commissioner of Police Lagos State, and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Police Command.
It will be recalled that Evans had on June 28, filed an ex-parte application numbered FHC/L/CS/1012/2017, before the same court, seeking an order directing the respondents to charge him to court.
He had also in the alternative, sought an order directing the respondents to release him unconditionally where no charge was preferred against him.
In an affidavit deposed to by his father, Mr Stephen Onwuamadike, he averred that the applicant had been subjected to media trial without any court order by the respondents.
Onwuamadike further averred that the media trial orchestrated by the respondents have continued to generate reactions in both print and electronic media without his son being afforded fair hearing before a court of law.
Continued detention violates my rights — Evans
Evans had contended that his continued detention by the respondents since June 10, without charges, or release on bail is an infringement on his fundamental rights.
In his new suit, also marked FHC/L/CS/1012/ 2017 and bearing similar respondents, the applicant is seeking a declaration that his continued detention since June 10 without arraignment, violates his fundamental rights as guaranteed under the 1999 constitution.
He is also seeking a declaration that his parade on June 11 before journalists in Lagos, at the Lagos police command headquarters in Ikeja, without any court order, is unconstitutional and illegal.
Continue Reading Evans-Here
Evans sues NPF, Lagos Police boss, SARS for media trial; seeks N300m for illegal detention
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