Alleged Human Rights Violation: Businessman files N20m Suit against Police IG, Others

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and others, have been dragged to court over an alleged unlawful detention, torture and inhuman treatment.

In a fundamental human rights suit filed by a Lagos-based businessman and philanthropist, Akinfolabi Akindele, before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, the Applicant accused the Inspector General of Police and other Respondents, of violating his fundament human rights by arresting and detaining him in a brutal manner, sometime in February, 2019.

Other Respondents in the suit are Assistant Inspector General of Police Force CID, Alagbon, Lagos, Assistant Inspector

General of Police Force, Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police State CID Panti, Lagos, Alhaji Azeez Ashiru, and Sergeant Adeyinka Adekunle.

Akindele, who is also the Managing Director of Adamakin Investment, in the suit marked as TEMP/49826/2020 filed through his Lawyer, Idris Mohammed Doko, stated that at the behest of Alhaji Azeez Ashiru (the 6th Respondent), sometime in February, 2019 he was arrested, brutalised, detained, and without being allowed to legal representation, was compelled to make statements on each occasion of his arrest and detention, and without arraignment before any court of law to date.

The Applicant is praying the court, to declare that the humiliating and brutal arrest and detention constitute a violation of his fundamental rights to dignity of the human person, guaranteed under Sections 34 and 35 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), Article 3 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap A9 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.

He wants the court to declare that the fresh invitation now sent to him on a matter that has already been investigated and concluded by the 5th