The Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, has awarded financial damages against the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and its officer,
Iregbeghen brutalized Comrade Erasmus Ikhide during the 2015 election at a polling unit in his hometown Eruere in Owan West Local Government Area.
On Tuesday, Justice A. Chuka Obiozor reprimanded the NSCDC and Iregbeghen for “arrogance of power and extreme barbarity”. In 2015, Ikhide instituted the case against the security agency and Iregbeghen, whom the court declared “overstepped their bounds in attacking the applicant on election day”. The litigant described Obiozor as a judge “who knows his onions by looking at the case with the judicial imaginary scale of justice”.
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