BREAKING: Saraki, Melaye, Murray-Bruce sue IG, demand N500m Damages
Mon, Oct 8, 2018 | By publisher
BREAKING NEWS, Politics
PRESIDENT of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Murray-Bruce have sued the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, over their invitation by the Nigeria Police.
Saraki, Melaye and Murray-Bruce were among the three leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party who held a protest march to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Force Headquarters in Abuja, on Friday to protest against the outcome of the Osun State governorship election.
The police had invited only Melaye and Murray-Bruce to appear before the Federal Capital Territory Command over alleged assaults on its men and destruction its property.
The lawmakers, however, failed to answer the invitation. Instead, they have dragged the IGP and the Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, praying the court to, among others, direct the defendants to “jointly and severally pay the applicants the sum of N500m only, same being the pecuniary and exemplary damages arising from the humiliation, intimidation, harassment and unlawful attempt to arrest the applicants by the agents of the second respondent (Commissioner of Police).”
Court papers obtained by our correspondent on Monday showed that the suit, with Number FHC/ABJ/03/095/2018, was filed by Mahmud Abubakar Magaji, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, on behalf of the lawmakers. – Punch
– Oct. 8, 2018 @ 8:09 GMT /
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