An FCT High Court, Maitama, on
Thursday ordered the Inspector-General of Police, the FCT Commissioner of
Police and one Peace Ibekwe-Abdullah to pay Princess Ujunwa Udeani the sum of
N1million as general damages for unlawful detention.
Udeani, in June 2014, filed a
suit before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf, claiming that her fundamental rights
were violated by the respondents as well as Ms Toyin Kehinde, Manager FCMB,
Wuse 2.
Baba-Yusuf while delivering
judgment on the matter, held that the detention of the applicant from February
12 to February 16, 2014, was illegal and unconstitutional in law.
“Any person illegally held or
detained shall be entitled to general damages. The detention of the applicant
from 12 to 16 February was unlawful.
“She is entitled to be awarded
general damages in the sum of N1 million,” the court ruled.
The judge also made an order of
perpetual injunction on the first to the third respondents and their agents
restraining them from interfering with the affairs of the applicant.
He further ordered the release of
the applicant’s vehicle seized by the respondents.
However, he held that the
evidence before the court did not support the claims of aggravated damages.
According to him, there was no
evidence before the court to support the applicant’s claim that her arrest,
detention and torture led to the loss of her four months pregnancy.
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