Police Ordered To Pay 15m Over Unlawful Detention Of Alleged Boko Haram Members

The Nigerian Police Force has been ordered by a Federal High Court in Abuja has to pay the sum of N15 million fine to seven suspected Boko Haram members over their unlawful detention for three years without trial.

The suspects, who were said to have been arrested inside a Maiduguri market in Borno, were allegedly dumped at the detention facility of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) at Abbatoir in Abuja.

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Justice M.O Olajuwon in a judgment on their fundamental human rights enforcement suit held that detention of the detainees for three years without trial contravened the provisions of the 1999 constitution on human rights.

The judge said that the police acted in bad faith in keeping the detainees beyond the period required by law especially when there was no cogent and verifiable ground of indictment of the applicants for any offence.

Justice Olajuwon, while holding that the detention was illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional consequently ordered that the seven applicants be released forthwith to their families.

He ordered that each applicant be paid a sum of N2 million as damages for their unlawful detention and another N10 million as the cost of litigation that brought about the judgment.

Counsel to the applicants, Mr. Peter Aboh praised the judge for ordering the immediate release of his clients.

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