(NIGERIA) A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos presided over by Justice Musa Kurya will on Friday deliver judgement in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed against Lagos State by 83 Nigerians of Igbo extraction, who were alleged to have been deported to Anambra State sometime in 2012.
The applicants include: Rosemary Nathaniel, Friday Ndukwe, Grace Igbochi, Ugulori Tutua, Chinyere Nicholas, Osondu Mbuto and 77 others. They had instituted an action seeking a declaration of the court that their arrest, remand and alleged forceful transportation from Lagos to Onitsha in Anambra State, on the ground that they were non-indigenes of Lagos and against their consent, was a violation of their fundamental rights to personal liberty, freedom of movement and freedom from discrimination.
They also want the court to issue a declaration that such alleged action of the Lagos State Government was a violation of Sections 35, 41(1) and 42 of the Constitution, and Articles 6,12, 2 and 28 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap., A9 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
Besides, the applicants are also praying the court to award a damage sum to the tune of N2bn against the Lagos State Government and its agents in their favour.
The applicants who has as respondents, Lagos State Attorney General (AG) and Justice Commissioner, alongside the state Commissioner of Police in the state also want the judge to give an order compelling the respondents to tender a published apology to them in at least three widely circulating national dailies.
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