The Federal High Court sitting in Jos has thrown out a N1.25 billion damages suit filed by Gov. Rochas Okorocha, against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the EFCC.
\nOkorocha filed the suit against the IGP and EFCC in November 2018 for allegedly invading and ransacking his house in Jos.
\nDelivering judgment, Justice Musa Kurya, dismissed Okoracha\u2019s application for lacking in merit.
\n\u201cEven though there was no record of how the search warrant was obtained but a search warrant dated May 3, 2017 from a Magistrate has been attached as exhibit before this court.
\n\u201cWhether due process was followed or not at obtaining the search warrant, there is no proof otherwise to its genuineness and the breach of sections 34 \u2013 37 of the UN human rights and African Charter.
\n\u201cConsequently, judgement is hereby entered in favour of the respondents. The applicant\u2019s claims are hereby refused.
\n\u201cI hereby declare that the application of the applicant lacked merit and is hereby dismissed and cost is not awarded to either parties in this suit, \u2019\u2019 the Judge declared.
\nNAN reports that Okorocha alleged that the IGP and the anti-graft agency breached his fundamental human rights following the May 3, 2017 invasion
\nAlso joined in the suit are the Commissioner of Police Plateau, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
\nThe Governor prayed the court to declare the action of the police and EFCC as \u201cillegal, null and void\u2019\u2019 and award his client the sum of N1.25 billion as general damages because there was no valid court warrant for such an exercise.
\nBut the IGP and the EFCC, through their counsel, Edwin Inegbenoise and Muktar Ali-Ahmed, pleaded with the court to dismiss the governors application for lack of merit since a court warrant was obtained for the search on his residence in accordance with the law. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Federal High Court sitting in Jos has thrown out a N1.25 billion damages suit filed by Gov. Rochas Okorocha, against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the EFCC. Okorocha filed the suit against the IGP and EFCC in November 2018 for allegedly invading and ransacking his house in Jos. Delivering judgment, Justice Musa Kurya, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}