An Abia State-based businessman,
Bright Anaga, has dragged the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, to a Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding N500m damages for illegal
arrest and detention.
Also joined as respondents in the
suit are the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; Commissioner of
Police, Federal Investigation Bureau and two others identified as Prince Jeff of
the Federal Investigation Bureau and Alhassan Emmanuel, a Superintendent of
Police.
The plaintiff made the demand in
the Fundamental Rights Enforcement suit before Justice A.R. Mohammed, filed by
his lawyers from E. H. Ugochukwu Chambers.
In the court document obtained on Monday, Anaga also asked the court to order his unconditional
release from detention or grant him bail pending when a formal charge would be
filed against him.
The businessman alleged that he
was arrested by agents of the IGP under instructions from the Minister of
Information and Culture on Saturday, May 2, in Aba, Abia State and has been in
detention since then without being informed of his offence, charged to court or
granted bail.
The suit has been scheduled for
hearing on Thursday.
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