A tailor, Hadiza Usman, on
Wednesday dragged the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS)
and his wife, Mrs Y.B. Magaji and the DSS FCT Director before the FCT High
Court, Apo, over alleged threat to life.
The enforcement of fundamental
rights motion was brought before Justice Sylvanus Oriji, by Usman, pursuant to
Order 4 Rule 7, Order 5 Rule 7 and Order 11 of the Fundamental Rights
(Enforcement Procedures) Rules,2009 and Section 33 of the Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.
The motion prayed the court to
make an interim order restraining the respondents by themselves, agents,
employees, operatives, detectives from further threatening the life of the
applicant or putting her life in jeopardy either by their actions or inaction
pending the determination of the application.
The applicant further sought the
leave of the court for the originating processes and all processes to be served
on the second to fourth respondents by substituted means.
She claimed that the respondents
through their officers are continually menacingly moving around her premises,
adding that she and her family are constantly living in fear as they keep
seeing strange movement of some Hilux vans belonging to the respondents with
masked men driving around the premises.
The applicant told the court that
her life was in grave jeopardy and except the court made an order restraining
the respondents from taking any steps, the worst might happen.
Usman claimed that she had been making
clothes for Mrs Magaji without any problems.
”I made more than 30 pieces and
she later brought 12 pieces of fabrics for sewing on Feb. 22.
”I delivered some of the clothes
on April 9, while the rest were delivered the following day.
”She opened the clothes I
returned one by one that day to confirm whether they were complete.
“A week later, she called me to
tell me that three of her headscarves were missing.
”She called me a thief,
threatening that she was going to deal with me if the scarves were not
provided,” he alleged.
In the evening of same day, Usman
claimed that Magaji’s Personal Assistant by the name, Vesta, came to her house
and informed that Madam was outside and requested to be allowed in.
She further claimed that masked
DSS operatives forcefully gained entrance into her house, did not only beat
security men at the gate and her family members but also inflicted injuries on
her and member of her family.
The operatives, Usman further
told the court, fired several gunshots into the compound, adding that she was
taken to the Asokoro General Hospital as a result of the injuries she sustained
from “the beating, inhuman and degrading treatment meted out on me by the
respondents using their operatives.”
Meanwhile, after listening to the
exparte motion as argued by Nkem Okoro from the chambers of Chief Mike
Ozekhome,/SAN, Justice Oriji refused to grant the restraining order sought by
the applicant and order that the respondents be put on notice.
The judge, however, granted the
applicant the leave to serve the respondents through substituted means. He then
fixed July 2 to hear the application.
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