The suit filed at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court is marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1147/2021.
A 25-year-old Nigerian, Suleiman Sadi has filed a lawsuit against the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, and the Director-General of the Department of State Services , Yusuf Bichi for their roles in the unlawful killing and harassment of Shi’ite members who were on a peaceful procession.
According to the affidavit in support of the suit, the plaintiff claimed that security operatives had warned them against going ahead with the religious activities, even when it was peaceful. “That the arrest, detention, maltreatment, and killing of several Shi’ite Muslims who assembled at Gwarimpa, the FCT, Abuja on September 28, 2021, to carry out a peaceful religious procession by the agents of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th defendants or privies amounted to a violation of their rights to freedom of religion, association, and peaceful assembly.
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