Choi see Gobe!!!
Who remembers when I reported that over 70 people were deported from Lagos and dumped in Onitsha?
Well, seven of the deportees, including Joseph Aniebonam, Osondu Mbuto, Osondu Agwu, Nnenna Ogbonna, Emily Okoroariri, Friday Ndukwe and Onyeka Ugwu as the applicants, on behalf of the 76 others,are suing Lagos state to the tune of I billion naira (Chineke, God) , while the Attorney-General of Lagos State and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State are the respondents.
The Federal High Court 4 sitting in Lagos, presided over by Justice Anumogobia is expected to commence hearing on January 29, 2014
In the motion filed on their behalf, through their legal counsel, Chief Barrister Ugo Ugwunnadi, an Onitsha-based legal practitioner., the applicants are asking the court to declare that they, as Nigerian citizens are entitled to the enjoyment of their fundamental rights as provided for in Sections 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
They are also seeking a declaration of the court that their arrest and detention in various camps, Oshodi rehabilitation centre, police cells and prisons, within Lagos State for no offence known to law and without trial and conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction, amounted to a serious breach of their rights as provided for in the relevant sections of the constitution, adding that such an action was illegal, null, void and unlawful.
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