For arresting and detaining Ngozi Umeadi, an activist of the Indigenous People of Biafra, a High Court sitting in Gudu, Abuja, has awarded N50 million damages against the Nigerian Police.
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, also said that the court ordered the unconditional release of Umeadi with a public apology tendered.
The lawyer stated that the judgement, delivered by Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi of Court 28, Gudu Judicial Division, Abuja, was a pointer to the fact that the judiciary was the purview of truth and fairness.
Ejiofor had filed a fundamental rights suit to challenge what he described as the illegal arrest, torture and continued detention of Umeadi since February 2021.
Osho-Adebiyi declared her arrest and continued detention by the security operatives as “illegal, and a gross violation of her Fundamental Human Rights.”
The judge awarded exemplary and aggravated damages of N50 million damages against the police as reparation, adding that the police should also “tender an unreserved apology to Ngozi Umeadi in two national dailies.”
