Abuja Federal High Court Orders IGP to Unconditionally Release An Illegally Detained IPOB Supporter awards him N50 Million Compensation

 Abuja Federal High Court Orders IGP to Unconditionally Release An Illegally Detained IPOB Supporter awards him N50  Million Compensation  T...

 Abuja Federal High Court Orders IGP to Unconditionally Release An Illegally Detained IPOB Supporter awards him N50  Million Compensation 

The Honourable Justice Zainab Bage Abubakar's Federal High Court sitting in Abuja have on 13th December, 2022, ordered the Nigerian Inspector General Of Police(IGP) to unconditionally release Mazi Solomon Onyegbule from police custody, forthwith. 

As stated in the Judgement papers, Justice Abubakar says the Court made the order on the basis that the applicant, Mazi Solomon Onyegbule has established his case regarding the earlier prayers he(Mazi Solomon Onyegbula) made to the Honorable Court.

 

Recall that Mazi Solomon Onyegbule was illegally abducted by the notorious Abba Kyari's led Federal Anti-Robbery Squad(F-SARS) on the 8th of March, 2021. Upon abduction, the notorious Abba Kyari's F-SARS team did not charge Mazi Solomon to court for trial, but agonisingly locked him at the Intelligence Response Team(IRT)'s detention facility in Abattoir, Abuja(A Nigeria Government's Slaughter House). As a result, no one has ever seen Mazi Solomon since his Abduction, as to ascertain his state.

Let it be noted here that according to available verified informations, Mazi Solomon Onyegbule has committed no crime known to humanity. He was abducted basically for being a supporter of the Mazi Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB).

On this note, the IPOB legal team originated a motion on behalf of Mazi Solomon on 7th February, 2022, and the motion was equally filed on the same date. In the motion, Mazi Solomon Onyegbula prayered the Honorable Court to grant him the deserving relief of declaring that his arrest and detention(without trial) since 8 March, 2021, till the application date, by the IGP's police, is illegal, unlawful, oppressive and unconstitutional. Mazi Solomon also requested of the court to order for his unconditional release and compensation, seeing he is innocent.

Therefore, the court required the Police(respondent) to evidently counter the claims of Mazi Solomon Onyegbule, but the Police could not, until the 13th of December, 2022.

So, the Honourable Court, in view of the foreging, held that the applicant(Solomon Onyegbule) has established the infringement on his fundamental rights, as he alleged. The court also states that the respondent(IGP) has failed, neglected or refused to filed any counter affidavit to dispute the facts contained in Mazi Solomon's affidavit. The Police as well, has failed to provide any justification of the break of Mazi Solomon's fundamental rights.

Consequently, the Court Ordered the IGP to unconditionally release Mazi Solomon Onyegbule, and compensate him with the sum of Fifty Million Naira(N50 Million). The court also went forward to order that the Police must make a public apology to Mazi Solomon for the unlawful arrest, illegal and continued detention, injuries suffered as a result of torture, inhuman and degrading treatments meted on him by the Police.

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Family Writers Press International, reporting.