A non-governmental organisation, Network Against Corruption and Trafficking (NACAT), has sued the Department of State Services (DSS) and its director general over the ‘infringement of fundamental human rights of the NGO and its staff members’.
An originating motion marked FHC/ABJ/CS/85/2023 at the Federal High Court in the Abuja Judicial Division has the DSS and its director general as respondents while the Incorporated Trustees of Network Against Corruption and Trafficking Foundation, Oghenedoro Tega Samson and Ojefia Ovie Justice are applicants in the infringement of the fundamental human rights case.
"An order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents, their agents, officers, servants, privies, or howsoever called from arresting, detaining, intimidating and harassing the applicants on any fact connected with or related to the facts in this application. Such further order or other orders as this honourable court may deem fit to make in the circumstances of the case."
The NGO stated that the DSS was being used to wage war against its investigation team and noted that as an NGO, it has been at the forefront of investigating corrupt civil servants using companies owned by them to award inflated contracts to themselves. It said it was however shocked to discover that the Federal Capital Territory command of the DSS instead of supporting its efforts as an NGO, has become a willing tool in the hands of corrupt officials.
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