Justice K. I. Okpe of an Enugu State High Court has granted an interim injunction restricting Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu from harassing the state leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State.
The court also restrained Onyeama’s Personal Assistant Flavour Eze and the officer in charge of the IG’s Intelligence Response Team (IRT).
This followed an application filed by Ugochukwu Eze, counsel to APC Chairman in Enugu, Ben Nwoye, Legal Adviser Ben Nebe, and Administrative Secretary Evaristus Asadu.
The plaintiffs filed the suit after the IRT directed Nwoye to report himself to its command.
But Nwoye argued before the court that the invitation was nothing more than an attempt by the Foreign Affairs Minister and his aides to use the police to breach his fundamental human rights.
Nwoye, who begged the court for protection, alleged that Onyeama was after his life in connection to the leadership of the party in the state.
After listening to the plaintiffs’ counsel, Justice Okpe ruled “that an order of interim injunction is hereby granted to the applicants, restraining the respondents, whether by themselves, their agents, men, officers or privies, from arresting, detaining or in any manner restricting the applicants’ rights to personal liberty and freedom of movement pending the hearing and determination of the substantive motion on notice.”
The judge adjourned the matter until May 6.
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