Tina Amanda
High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed a fundamental Human Rights suit filed by one Barrister Nnamdi Ofoegbu against Chief Innocent Nwosu, Commissioner of Police and six others over unlawful arrest and detention.
Chief Innocent Nwosu and members of his family had approached Nigerian Police who carried out arrest on some suspects including Ofoegbu who allegedly destroyed properties worth millions of naira.
Ofoegbu and his team were subsequently arraigned before a Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt Presided over by Chief Magistrate Amadi Nna who granted bail to the suspects.
Barr Ofoegbu thereafter his bail filed a fundamental right action against Chief Nwosu, the Commissioner of Police and six others, seeking the sum of seven hundred million naira as compensation for alleged unlawful arrest and detention.
The presiding judge, justice A. Nisirim while delivering his judgment, described the suit as frivolous and gravely floored and thereby dismissed same in its entirety for lacking in merit, insisting that the police acted in accordance to the law.
