A Federal Capital Territory High
Court, sitting in Gudu Judicial Division Abuja, has awarded N50 million damages
against the police for arresting and detaining an activist of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, Ngozi Umeadi.
Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi
Ejiofor, who hailed the judgement on Thursday, said the court also ordered her
unconditional release and public apology.
He noted that the judgement was
delivered by Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi of Court No. 28, Gudu Judicial
Division, Abuja.
The lawyer had filed a fundamental rights suit we filed to challenge the illegal arrest, torture and continued detention of Mrs Ngozi Umeadi since February 2021.
Osho-Adebiyi declared Ngozi
Umeadi’s arrest and continued detention by the Operatives of the Inspector
General of Police Intelligence Response Unit, hitherto led by the suspended
head, Abba Kyari, as “illegal, and a gross violation of her fundamental Human
Rights”.
The Court further directed for
her “immediate and unconditional release from custody, and consequently awarded
exemplary and aggravated damages of N50 million damages against the police as
reparation.
The Court further directed the
police to “tender an unreserved apology to Mrs Ngozi Umeadi, which apology will
be published in two national dailies”.
Ngozi Umeadi, a nursing mother,
was said to be arrested at a hospital in Onitsha since February 2021.
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