Nnamdi Kalu drags AGF and DSS to court for Alleged denial of fundamental rights in Custody.

 


Nnamdi Kanu on Monday, December 13, hammered a new suit against the Attorney General of the Federation AGF, the Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami SAN and the Department of State Service (DSS).


In the new suit, Kanu is looking for a request from the Federal High court in Abuja to propel the DSS to permit him access food, clinical consideration and garments of his decision.


The kept head of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, blamed the DSS for horribly disregarding his crucial common freedoms.


Kanu, in the suit stamped FHC/ABJ/CS1585/2021, documented through one of his legal counselors, Mr. Maxwell Chibuike Okpara, affirmed that a specialist connected with by the security office has removed his blood north of 21 times.


The IPOB pioneer lamented that in spite of a request for the court, he has nor been permitted to have a difference in attire nor to rehearse his religion in confinement.


Kanu likewise applied for one more request against DSS to permit him make courses of action for his food without anyone else at his own cost.


The suit was upheld by an affirmation of desperation that was removed to by Kanu's more youthful sibling, Emmanuel.


The affirmation on the side of the suit read to some extent: "The Applicant is a Nigerian resident who is qualified for the satisfaction in the basic privileges cherished in section 4 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as changed and Article 5 and 8 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and requirement) Act Cap A9 Vol. 1 LFN.


"The Respondents have denied the Applicant admittance to office and material to rehearse his confidence and at last kept the Applicant from supplicating or potentially rehearsing his confidence, and the previously mentioned comprise a break of the Applicant's on the right track to rehearse his religion.


"The Respondents kept the Applicant from approaching a clinical professional and lawful specialist of his decision.


"The Respondent exposed the Applicant to isolation which is a type of mental and actual torment and as such subjects the Applicant to cruel and debasing treatment and thus comprises an infringement of Section 34(1)(a) Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as corrected and Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and People Rights (Ratification and requirement) Act Cap A9 Vol. 1 LFN.


"The Applicant's right not to be exposed to barbaric and debasing treatment and torment/embarrassment is cherished in Section 34(1)(a) Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as altered and Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and People Rights (Ratification and requirement) Act Cap A9 Vol. 1 LFN.


"Request (ii) Rule (I) of the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 209 engages any individual who affirms that any of the major privileges to which he is qualified for is being, has been, or alternately is probably going to be encroached upon to apply to the court for a change.


"The Respondents have no legitimization to have exposed the Applicant to outrage, embarrassment, mental torment and barbaric and corrupting treatment."


The suit is in addition to other things, looking for, "A request guiding the Respondents to quickly permit the Applicant admittance to office and material for the act of his religion.


"A request for this court guiding the Respondents to promptly permit the Applicant to designating an autonomous Medical Practitioner of his decision from a guaranteed government clinic to survey the Applicant's clinical documents.


"A request guiding the Respondents to permit the Applicant admittance to a clinical specialist of his decision and a lawful professional of his decision.


"A request for this court guiding the Respondents to promptly eliminate the Applicant from isolation.


Just as, "A request for unending directive limiting the Respondents, their approved specialists by whatever name supposed, from further upsetting or meddling with the privileges of the Applicant to pride of human individual and opportunity thought, heart and religion or in any capacity encroaching on the protected freedoms of the Applicant as ensured by law or from making any endeavor fit for abusing the Applicant's freedoms as ensured under the Constitution."

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