A Federal High Court in Abuja has awarded a sum of N5 million each against the Directorate of the State Security Service (SSS) and police over their gross abuse of power against some Nigerian citizens.
The court ordered the two security agencies to henceforth conduct and operate within the ambit of the laws that established them.
Justice Evon Chukwu who awarded the compensatory damages against the SSS and the police asked them to stop their gross abuse of the rights of the Nigerian citizens to freedom of association.
He said they should not use the activities of the Islamic set, the Boko Haram to subject innocent Nigerians to unnecessary hardship by infringing their fundamental rights unjustly.
He said they should not use the activities of the Islamic set, the Boko Haram to subject innocent Nigerians to unnecessary hardship by infringing their fundamental rights unjustly.
Delivering judgment in a suit filed by the trustees of the Peace Corps of Nigeria, Justice Chukwu barred the two bodies from interfering with the lawful activities and programmes of the registered body.
The judge also stopped further arrest, detention, intimidation and harassment of Peace Corps Officers by the SSS and the police.
The judge also stopped further arrest, detention, intimidation and harassment of Peace Corps Officers by the SSS and the police.
Justice Chukwu held that it was barbaric and uncivilised for the operatives of the SSS and the police to resort to stripping officials of the Peace Corps naked in the public for no cause that could be defended in a law court.
The court also nullified a secret security report by the SSS forwarded to some state governors describing the Peace Corps as an unregistered and a security threatening body.
The court said the report was unlawful, illegal, unwarranted and in bad taste.
Justice Chukwu held that the report damaging the registered Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) was in bad taste due to the failure of the SSS to justify the reason behind the issuance of the report.
The Peace Corps had in the suit argued on its behalf by Mr. AbdulRasaq Ayedum, complained that its offices across the States of the Federation were closed down while its officials wearing uniforms were stripped naked in the public by the SSS.
Justice Chukwu held that the report damaging the registered Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) was in bad taste due to the failure of the SSS to justify the reason behind the issuance of the report.
The Peace Corps had in the suit argued on its behalf by Mr. AbdulRasaq Ayedum, complained that its offices across the States of the Federation were closed down while its officials wearing uniforms were stripped naked in the public by the SSS.
The corps demanded N250 million damages from the SSS and the Police as damages.
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