- A Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya
Ogungbeje, has filed a N50bn suit against
President Muhammadu Buhari, the
Department of State Services and its
Director-General, Lawal Daura, along with
others for allegedly violating the rights of
judges whose houses were raided by the
DSS operatives between October 8 and 9,
Punch reports.
Others joined as defendants in the suit, with
number FHC/ABJ/CS/809/16, are the
Attorney General of the Federation and
Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN);
the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim
Idris; and the National Judicial Council.
Ogungbeje filed the suit before the Federal
High Court in Abuja on Friday, October 14.
He alleged that the arrest of the judges
without recourse to the NJC was unlawful
and amounted to humiliating them.
He said the DSS operations violated the
rights of judges under sections 33, 34, 35,
36 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution.
The plaintiff sought 10 prayers, among
which is an order awarding N50bn against
the defendants as “general and exemplary
damages.”
He also sought to be awarded N2m as the
cost of the suit.
The lawyer also sought an order compelling
the DSS to return to the judges the sums of
money reportedly recovered from them.
He also sought a perpetual injunction
restraining the defendants from arresting,
inviting, intimidating or harassing the
judges with respect to the case.
The DSS had, between Friday and Saturday,
arrested Justices Sylvester Ngwuta and
John Okoro of the Supreme Court; Justice
Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court,
Abuja, and Justice Muazu Pindiga of the
Federal High Court, Gombe Division.
Meanwhile the full list of top Nigerian
judges under investigation by security
agencies across the country has been
exposed according to news24
Ogungbeje, has filed a N50bn suit against
President Muhammadu Buhari, the
Department of State Services and its
Director-General, Lawal Daura, along with
others for allegedly violating the rights of
judges whose houses were raided by the
DSS operatives between October 8 and 9,
Punch reports.
Others joined as defendants in the suit, with
number FHC/ABJ/CS/809/16, are the
Attorney General of the Federation and
Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN);
the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim
Idris; and the National Judicial Council.
Ogungbeje filed the suit before the Federal
High Court in Abuja on Friday, October 14.
He alleged that the arrest of the judges
without recourse to the NJC was unlawful
and amounted to humiliating them.
He said the DSS operations violated the
rights of judges under sections 33, 34, 35,
36 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution.
The plaintiff sought 10 prayers, among
which is an order awarding N50bn against
the defendants as “general and exemplary
damages.”
He also sought to be awarded N2m as the
cost of the suit.
The lawyer also sought an order compelling
the DSS to return to the judges the sums of
money reportedly recovered from them.
He also sought a perpetual injunction
restraining the defendants from arresting,
inviting, intimidating or harassing the
judges with respect to the case.
The DSS had, between Friday and Saturday,
arrested Justices Sylvester Ngwuta and
John Okoro of the Supreme Court; Justice
Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court,
Abuja, and Justice Muazu Pindiga of the
Federal High Court, Gombe Division.
Meanwhile the full list of top Nigerian
judges under investigation by security
agencies across the country has been
exposed according to news24
The list is contained in a confidential memo
forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari
on a recent dramatic move by agents of the
Department of State Security (DSS) against
judges accused of accepting bribes as well
as other acts of corruption.
forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari
on a recent dramatic move by agents of the
Department of State Security (DSS) against
judges accused of accepting bribes as well
as other acts of corruption.
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