Group files N10m damages against IGP over unlawful arrest, detention of journalists in Delta
by the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring at the Delta State High Court, Otor-Udu.
The group stressed that it filed a fundamental rights suit against the IGP over its refusal to render a public apology to the five journalists including Matthew Omonigho . The group noted that it took special interest in the case and wrote the Inspector-General of Police, IGP on the issue, demanding a public apology to be rendered forthwith by the Police High Command to the said journalists, but same was to no avail.
As part of the reliefs sought, the group is praying the Court for, “A Declaration that the assault, beatings and arrest of the Applicant by the Respondents on Tuesday, the 26th day of May, 2020 at the Press Centre of the Warri Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Warri and the subsequent detention of the Applicant by the Respondents from 4:30pm till 12 midnight in their cell at the Respondents’ Police Area Command Office, Warri in lieu of a colleague and/or without any...
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