Court To Deliver Judgment In Igbo ‘Lagos Deportees’ Case Friday
Justice Musa Kurya of the Federal High Court in Lagos will on Friday deliver judgment in a fundamental rights enforcement suit file by 83 Igbo, who were allegedly deported by force from Lagos to Anambra State in 2012 by the state government.
The applicants – Rosemary Nathaniel, Friday Ndukwe, Grace Igbochi, Ugulori Tutua, Chinyere Nicholas, Osondu Mbuto and 77 others – are in the suit seeking a declaration that their arrest, remand and alleged forceful transportation from Lagos to Onitsha on the ground that they were non-indigenes of Lagos and against their consent, was a violation of their fundamental rights to personal liberty, freedom of movement and freedom from discrimination.
The applicants want the court to declare that the state’s action was a violation of Sections 35, 41(1) and 42 of the Constitution, and Articles 6,12, 2 and 28 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap., A9 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
They want Justice Musa Kurya to award damages of N2 billion against Lagos State and its agents in their own favour.
Joined with the state as respondents, were its Attorney General and the state’s Commissioner of Police.
But it was the argument of Lagos State that the applicants’ deportation to Onitsha was not done out of malice, but with the genuine intention of re-uniting them with their families.
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