A federal high court in Abuja, has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to pay...
of funds to the tune of N5.2 billion while in office. He was later granted bail while the trial continued.But the former JAMB registrar sued ICPC for allegedly violating his right to dignity and liberty.
Delivering judgment on Tuesday, Egwuatu held that though Ojerinde’s rearrest was legal and lawful based on the search warrant obtained from the chief judge of the court, the anti-graft commission ought to have obtained a detention warrant.The judge held that detaining the applicant without a proper order and not arraigning him was a breach of his fundamental right to liberty.
However, the court held that Ojerinde’s right to the dignity of a person was not breached since he was unable to show that he was either tortured or brought into forced slavery, among others.Although Ojerinde had sought N500 million as compensation and another N100 million as the cost of instituting the suit, the court awarded N1 million as damages and N200,000 as litigation cost.
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