Mrs. Uloma Nwosu, wife of the
governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in the 2019 elections, and
two others have dragged Governor Emeka Ihedioha; Commissioner of Police, Imo
State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and three others before a
Federal High Court.
Mr. Nwosu, who is also the
daughter of immediate past governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, took the
action over alleged invasion of her shopping complex, the House of Freeda
Limited, by members of the Committee on Recovery of Government Property.
Also named in the suit No
FHC/OW/CS/92/2019 are the Chairman of the Committee, Hon Jasper Ndubuaku, Hon
Kenneth Anaeme and Christian Obiano.
In a Motion on Notice, the
applicants sought the order of the court as follows:
“A declaration that the
respondents’ acts of beating up, wounding, torturing and rough handling of the
staff of the applicants namely Nathaniel Okon and Abiodun Alli, using their
thugs and hoodlums are unlawful and amount to gross violation of the
fundamental right of the 1st applicant.”
It sought the award of “N5
billion as exemplary damages against the respondents for forcibly and/or viet
armis invading the premises of the 1st applicant known as and called House of
Freeda.
“An order of perpetual injunction
restraining the respondents from further threatening, beating up, wounding and
torturing the applicants and/ or abusively handling any members of staff of the
1st and 2nd applicants.”
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