A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting at Gudu, has fixed November 13, to hear a fundamental right enforcement suit brought against the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, and others for unlawful detention of a student since September 7.

The other defendants in the suit marked: FCT/HC/M/057/2023, are the Attorney-General of Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Pataka Hananiah, and Abdulhafeez Garba.

Justice M. M. Adamu also ordered both the AGF, IGP and four others to produce before the court a student and businessman, Mohammed Rabiu, who was allegedly detained illegally, on the adjourned date.

The court made the order after it listened to counsel to the Applicant, Terkaa Jerry Aondo.

The counsel, in an affidavit in support of a motion ex-parte, alleged that the arrest of the applicant (his client) in the circumstances was unlawful as his continued detention in an underground cell at the old SARS building at Abattoir Guzape, Abuja.

“The arrest of the Applicant on a petition orchestrated infraction of the Applicant’s right by the 4th respondent.

“There is a need to restrain the respondents from further breaches of the applicant fundamental rights and immediately release the cars and monies received from his relatives under the guise of recovery of debt owed the 4th respondent on behalf of the nominal complainant,” he added.

The applicant’s counsel further stated that the 4th respondent was playing with the life of the Applicant by bringing him out once a daily to grasp for air without medical attention.

Justice Adamu, ruling on the ex-partemotion, also granted an accelerated hearing of the motion on notice and abridging the time for hearing the application on notice to three days. (The Guardian)

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