Fani-Kayode, Yinka Odumakin Sue EFCC, SS And Nigerian Police For N20m

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Fani-Kayode, Yinka Odumakin Sue EFCC, SS And Nigerian Police For N20m

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode; and human right
activist, Yinka Odumakin, have sued the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, The State Security Service and the Nigeria Police Force for
N20m over attempts to arrest them.  

They also asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the
Department of State Services from detaining them in a move that comes
barely 24 hours after the EFCC vowed to invite and possibly prosecute
them for breaching the Cyber Crime Act.

Both Fani-Kayode and Odumakin, who is the spokesman for pan-Yoruba
group, Afenifere, had alleged that the EFCC had surrounded the home of
the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, who is facing
prosecution for alleged corruption.  

They instituted the fresh court action marked FHC/ABJ/CS/49/2019
before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday. In the
originating summons filed on their behalf by Chukwuma-Chukwu Ume (SAN),
the plaintiffs asked the Federal High Court to rule that the
respondents’ public declaration to arrest them on the basis of spreading
false rumours is an infringement on their fundamental rights as
enshrined in Section 34(a) 35(1) (4) and (5) of the 1999 Constitution.  

They are also seeking an order “restraining the respondents, their
privies, their agents from inviting, detaining or arresting the
applicants for any reason without following due process. “And an order
that the respondents pay the sum of N20,000,000 as damages for the
unlawful threat to arrest the applicants.”

See copies of the lawsuit below…

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