An engineer, Mr. Chidi Adabanya, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to a Federal High Court in Abuja claiming N1bn over alleged torture and illegal detention for seven days in the Port Harcourt and Lagos offices of the commission.
The Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited is also joined as 2nd defendant in the suit, which processes were obtained by our correspondent on Thursday.
The plaintiff, in an application for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights, filed by his lawyer, Mrs. Phina Wilson, also asked the court for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the EFCC or its agents from further infringing on his fundamental human rights under the guise of arrest or detention, pending the determination of the substantive motion.
Among others, the plaintiff is seeking the following reliefs:
“A declaration that the arrest of the applicant by the 1st respondent (EFCC), on the instruction and urging of the 2nd respondent (SPDC) on the October 8, 2010 where the applicant has not committed any offence known to law is illegal, unconstitutional, null and void as it violates the applicant’s constitutional rights under Sections 34, 35, 36, 39 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“A declaration that the detention of the applicant in the office of EFCC in both Port Harcourt and Lagos for three and four days respectively is illegal and unconstitutional as it is an infringement on the fundamental right of the Applicant as guaranteed and protected by Sections 34, 35, 36, 39 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“An order compelling the 1st respondent to release the applicant’s international passport and other personal effects confiscated from the applicant forthwith.”
The plaintiff was arrested and detained for allegedly appointing Forstech Technical Limited to act as consultant to SPDC in processing the company’s documentations for securing development permit for the construction of the Gbaran Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas Project in Bayelsa, for which he was authorised by the company to render.
The applicant is the principal engineer in charge of interface management in the Gbaran Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas Project/NLNG supplies SPDC.
The plaintiff averred that after completing the documentation of the processing of the development permit, SPDC decided not to honour all its obligations.
The plaintiff also informed the court that he was sick and suffering from high blood pressure, which resulted in a heart attack, nervous shock and stroke as a result of the long detention.
He claimed that the reliefs had become necessary following incessant threats by the EFCC operatives to get him rearrested and detained indefinitely in Abuja, despite his failing health and flagrant abuse of his fundamental human rights.
No date has been fixed for hearing.
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Engineer sues EFCC, SPDC for N 1bn damages
Engineer sues EFCC, SPDC for N 1bn damages
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Friday, May 27, 2011
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