The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Adamu Mohammed, and the Attorney-General of Kano State, Ibrahim Mukhtar, have unsealed the Tiamin rice company...
The Inspector-General of Police , Adamu Mohammed, and the Attorney-General of Kano State, Ibrahim Mukhtar, have unsealed the Tiamin rice company as ordered by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Dissatisfied with the seal up, Tiamin Multi-services Global Ltd, Tiamin Rice Limited and Aliyu Ibrahim filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked: FHC/ABJ/448/2020 against the IGP, Kano state commissioner of police, Kano state government and theThe applicants in their suit contended that the distance of the mill is over 20kms from the isolation centre at Sani Abacha Stadium.
The judge held that “the sealing off of the rice processing mill and denial of lawful access without any order of competent court of law backing up the sealing off constituted a violation of the owners’ fundamental rights under Sections 33, 34, 43 and 44 of the 1999 Constitution and is therefore illegal and unconstitutional.”
He ordered the respondents to pay N300,000 to the applicants before taking any step in the proceedings and that the applicants “shall endorse Form 48 on the enrolled judgment order and serve same on the four respondents.”
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