A vacation judge of the Federal High Court, Lagos, Justice Chuka Obiozor, on Tuesday, September 5, adjourned the N300m fundamental rights suit filed by suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as ‘Evans’ against the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, and three others, till Sept 21.
Evans is challenging his continued detention since June 10 without arraignment and supposed media trial by the police which he claims are illegal.
In the suit, the Anambra State-born suspect is requesting the award of N300m as exemplary damages, while also demanding that the police authorities be ordered to immediately arraign him before a law court, or release him from custody.
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Justice Obiozor also posited that the arraignment of Evans before the State High Court on Tuesday last week mitigated against any urgency in the suit.
The trial of Evans took yet another sensational turn on August 30, when he and five others who allegedly worked with him pleaded guilty to the charges of conspiracy and kidnapping before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of Lagos State High Court, Ikeja.
This came bare weeks after Justice Abdulazeez Anka of the Federal High Court had ruled in favour of his fundamental rights suit against the police hierarchy.
Justice Anka then adjourned hearing to today (September 5) at the instance of the Commissioner of Police (Legal), Mr David Igbodo, who claimed that the Inspector General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force had not been properly briefed on the proceedings.
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