Omoyele Sowore, the convener of Revolution Now movement has taken the Department of State Services (DSS) to court for illegal detention.
Sowore prayed the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the DSS to pay him N500m for aggravated damaged over his illegal detention which he called ‘Illegal violation of his fundamental rights’.
Sowore filed the lawsuit on November 20, 2019, and was marked FHC/ABJ /C51409/2019. The suit was supported by a 21-paragraph affidavit deposed to by Abubakar Marshall and accompanied by a written address.
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The Lawsuit stated:
“A declaration that the detention of the applicant from November 7, 2019 till date in violation of the order for his release made on November 6, 2019 is illegal as it violates his fundamental right to liberty guaranteed by Section 35 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Article 6 of African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement Act (CAP A10) Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
“An order of this court compelling the respondents to pay to the applicant the sum of N500,000, 000, 00 ( Five hundred million naira) as general and aggravated damages for the illegal violation of the applicant’s fundamental right to life, dignity of his person, fair hearing, health, freedom of movement and freedom of association.
“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents from further violating the applicant’s fundamental rights in any manner whatsoever and however without lawful justification.”