Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, is demanding the sum of N300 million from the police as general and exemplary damages for illegal detention since June 10, 2017, without pressing any charge against him in court and unconstitutional media trial.
The relief was contained in the motion on notice of a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1012/2017, which he filed against the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and three others at the Federal High Court in Lagos.
The Nigeria Police Force, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Police Command, were joined as co-respondents in the suit.
In a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed on his behalf by a Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, the suspected kidnapper is seeking for a court’s order directing the respondents to immediately charge him to court if there is any case against him in accordance with Sections 35 (1) (c) (3) (4) (5) (a) (b) and 36 of the Constitution.
He is on the alternative seeking for an order compelling the respondents to immediately release him unconditionally in the absence of any offence that will warrant his being charged to court.
In the suit, Evans is contending that his continued detention by the respondents since June 10, 2017, without being charged to court or released on bail is an infringement on his fundamental human rights.
He argued that the respondents ought to have charged him to court in accordance with the provisions of Sections 35 and 36 of the Constitution.
