60 Year Old Farmer Demands N20 Million Compensation From STF, Army For Invading His Privacy

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Yakubu Busari

A 62 year old farmer, Alhaji Salmanu has dragged the Army, the Chief of Defence Staff, to the Plateau State High Court, seeking the Court’s Order, directing the Respondents, jointly and severally, to pay him the sum of Twenty Million Naira (N20, 000,000.00), as compensation for alleged, “unwarranted breach of his Fundamental Human Right, as provided for under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

The farmer is seeking the Courts Order, directing the Respondents to publish an unreserved public apology in two national dailies to the Applicant for the unwarranted infringement.

The Applicant’s Fundamental Rights and an Order of Perpetual Injunction restraining the Respondents, their officers, Agents or any person howsoever, acting on their behalf, orders or directives to stop any action.

The Originating Motion on Notice, dated 6th June 2019, brought pursuant to Order2 Rule2 and 3 of the Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules, 2009, chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Right (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap 10 LFN,2004, are Major Gen. Augustine Agundo (STF Commander, Operation Save Heaven, Plateau State) and Major P.A. Omoniyi (the 2IC, STF Sector5, Officer in Charge of Kurra Falls Barkin-Ladi Plateau State).

Alhaji Salmanu Bature Muhammed, in the Motion on Notice, filed by his Counsel, Akibu P. Idris (Esq), of Messers: Akib Idris & Associates, seeking orders of court to direct that the 4th Respondent, (Major P.A. Omoniyi) pay damage of infringing on his own fundamental human right as a citizen of Nigeria.

Idris explained further that, the 4th respondent didn’t have power to harass, intimidate, arrest and subsequently, detain the Applicant in an unhygienic detention cell for the period of 3 days from 22nd May, 2019 to 25th May, 2019, without access to his relations and his Counsel on account of an alleged offence of rustling tow cows by his adult son Kabiru Bature, who is living apart with the Applicant over the years

The applicant declares that his illegal arrest, detention in an unhygienic detention cell of the army for 3 days from 22nd May 2019, to 25th May 2019, they denied him access to his relations and Counsel by the STF (4th Respondent ).

Mohammed counsel said his client, son, Kabiru Bature, who allegedly participated in the rustling of two-cows, is unlawful, unjustifiable, and a gross violation of the Applicant’s Fundamental Rights as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended.

Grounds upon which the Reliefs are sought by Alhaji Salmanu, coming soon!

It would be recalled that the Alhaji Salman has stated that Soldiers invaded his privacy where he was harassed, arrested, detained and threatened to arrest him, his relations on account of an alleged offense of cow rustling committed by his adult son, Kabiru Bature, who is living apart with the Applicant over the years.

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