Kaduna court rejects ASD’s N500m claim from IGP, business mogul

A Kaduna State High Court has ordered a business mogul, Abubakar Adamu Abubakar, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Nigerian Police Force to write and deliver a letter of apology to the former Chairman of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN), Alhaji Sani Dauda and two others for unlawful […]

A Kaduna State High Court has ordered a business mogul, Abubakar Adamu Abubakar, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Nigerian Police Force to write and deliver a letter of apology to the former Chairman of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN), Alhaji Sani Dauda and two others for unlawful arrest.

The court, however, dismissed three other reliefs sought by the applicants including the demand for N500 million damages to be paid by Abubakar and IGP Adamu.

According to the court papers, in his request for damages, the applicant (ASD) did not establish his reason for excluding some of the defendants “Thus, the reliefs number 3, 4 and 6 as contained in the motion on notice dated the 20th day of August, 2020 are hereby dismissed.”

Daily Trust Saturday reports that the judgement followed a motion on notice filed independently by the applicants, Alhaji Sani Dauda, Alhaji Shehu Sani Dauda and Murtala Nasir Al-Misry for the enforcement of their fundamental human right over their alleged “unlawful arrest and detention” between the 11th and 13th of November, 2019.

The judgement showed that the arrest of the applicants on 11th November, 2019 over “a purely civil matter bothering on marriage and divorce under Islamic law constitutes an infringement on the applicant’s fundamental human rights.”

The judge further granted an injunction restraining the arrest of the applicants with respect to the matter.

The court dismissed three reliefs sought by the applicants on the grounds that they could not establish before the court that they were detained in a facility without beddings or proper toilet facilities; and that the intention for their arrest and detention was to arm-twist them into dissolving or abrogating a validly conducted marriage.

Our correspondent gathered that Alhaji Musa Abubakar and the Police have already filed an appeal on the issues.