Ex-Anambra lawmaker to pay N1.1m damage for human rights violation
The High Court which sat at Oba also ordered Ibezim, who represented Idemili North/ South to pay the sum of N100,000 to the duo as cost of litigation and a public apology in a daily newspaper that circulates in Anambra.
The applicants in their suit marked HID/MISC/81/2019 said they were prevented from pasting the campaign posters of their principal, Uche Annie Okonkwo, who was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the 2019 general election. Other respondents in the suit were Mr Anayo Ephraim Ndubuisi, Mr. Osita Agbaleke, Mr Ifeanyichukwu Udoh, Mr Chinasa Okoye, SP Obisesan Olusegun and Commissioner Of Police in Anambra.
They said the acts violated their fundamental Rights and against the spirit of section 39 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and Article IX of African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. “I declare that the forceful arrest of the applicants at Nnobi on Dec. 29, 2018 by the second to fifth respondents and detaining or confining the applicants in a toilet in the premises of the first respondent from Dec. 29 to Dec. 30, 2018 at the instigation of the first respondent contrary to the laid down procedure under section 9 and 18 of Anambra criminal justice law, 2010 is unlawful, unconstitutional and violation of applicants right to personal liberty.
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