President of the Senate, Bukola
Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Murray-Bruce have dragged the
Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to court.
The move was over their
invitation by the Nigeria Police.
The lawmakers were among the
three leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party who led a protest march to the
headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Force
Headquarters in Abuja on Friday to protest against the outcome of the Osun
State governorship election.
The police had invited only
Melaye and Murray-Bruce to appear before the Federal Capital Territory Command
over alleged assaults on its men and destruction of its property.
The lawmakers, however, failed to
answer the invitation. Instead, they are praying the court to, among others,
direct the defendants to “jointly and severally pay the applicants the sum of
N500m only, same being the pecuniary and exemplary damages arising from the
humiliation, intimidation, harassment and unlawful attempt to arrest the
applicants by the agents of the second respondent (Commissioner of Police).”
Court papers obtained by our
correspondent on Monday showed that the suit, with Number FHC/ABJ/03/095/2018,
was filed by Mahmud Abubakar Magaji, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, on behalf of
the lawmakers.
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