Delta police to pay N1.6m for unlawful arrest
The court also ordered the police to publicly tender an unreserved apology for the illegal arrest and detention in at least two national newspapers within 14 days.
Justice Roli Daibo Harriman of the Delta State High Court in delivering her judgment on Thursday, April 30, 2020, said the arrest and detention of the ex-security workers were illegal.The respondents were ordered to “render an unreserved apology to the applicants in two National dailies i.e the Vanguard Newspaper and The Nation Newspaper within 15 days from today.”
It was dated April 30, 2020 and signed by Assistant Inspector General of Police Alkali Baba Usman, a former commissioner of police in Delta State. Civil Society Groups are alleging ethnic play by the state police chief, noting that some of the affected officers barely spent a year in the state.
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