The Federal High Court, Yenagoa, has ordered Army authorities to pay N50,000 for contempt.
This was for failing to appear in court for a hearing on the ongoing fundamental rights violation case instituted against the Nigerian Army, the Chief of Army Staff, the Chief of Defence Staff and the Attorney General of the Federation by a Niger Delta activist and lawyer, Festus Daumiebi.
Recall that in the aftermath of the killing of 17 soldiers in Okuoma in Delta State, soldiers in search of the alleged perpetrators raided Daumiebi’s country home in Igbomotoru I, Southern Ijaw Local Council of Bayelsa State Daumiebi, through his team of legal practitioners led by Prof. O. F. Emiri , had instituted a N20.4 billion special and exemplary damages suit against the Nigerian Army, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Defence Staff and the Attorney General of the Federation for the unlawful invasion of his country home and subsequent destruction of his property.
Angered by the flagrant disrespect, the court, in its last sitting on June 11, ordered that hearing notices be served on the respondents one more time, and if they still ignored the court, the court shall be moved to hear the originating application for the enforcement of Daumiebi’s fundamental rights.
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