Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has sued the chief of army
staff over the killing of Monday Orukpe, a police officer, by a soldier in
August 2022.
On August 3, 2022, Orukpe was killed at the Trade Fair
section of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway area of Lagos state, in the course of
his official duties.
According to the LASUTH autopsy report which was completed
on October 27, 2022, and was signed by O.O. Onayemi of the department of
pathology and forensics, Orukpe’s demise was brought on by multiple injuries
and blunt force trauma.
Falana filed the suit on Thursday on behalf of Favour
Monday, wife of the deceased, for the enforcement of her late husband’s
fundamental human rights to life, the dignity of the human person, private and
family life and presumption of innocence.
According to Falana, “a man should be allowed to thread
Nigeria soil and breathe Nigeria air until the court finds him unworthy to so
do”.
“The respondent’s agents have no right to sniff life out of
the deceased extra-judicially as they have done in this case.
“The brutalization and indiscriminate killing of the
applicant’s husband… is wrongful, oppressive, illegal, unlawful,
unconstitutional, null and void as it violates the deceased’s fundamental right
to the dignity of the human person.”
Falana is praying the court for an order mandating the
respondents to set up a special education fund of not less than N100 million in
favour of Orukpe’s four children “sufficient to cater to their educational
needs from primary school to university in any educational institution they may
wish to attend”.
He is also praying the court for an order “compelling the
respondents to jointly and severally pay to the applicant the sum of N200
million as general and aggravated damages for the illegal violation of the
fundamental rights to life, the dignity of the person and presumption of
innocence of inspector Monday Orukpe; their breadwinner”.
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