BREAKING: Court Set To Hear YeleSowore, Bakare's Fundamentals Rights Suit | Sahara Reporters Sowore and Bakare also asked the court to order the Department of State Services to pay them N500m each as damages for their detention and violation... READ MORE:
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, will today hear the application seeking the enforcement of fundamental rights filed by human rights activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare.
They asked the court to declare that their unlawful detention by the Department of State Services was"illegal as it violates their fundamental right to liberty". They also sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents from further violating their fundamental rights in any manner whatsoever and howsoever without lawful justification.
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