Court Orders NSCDC To Pay Damages Over Rights Violation.

Minna High Court 4 in Niger State has ordered the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, to pay N5 million to a Minna-based legal practitioner, Ifeanyichukwu Emmanuel Igwe, as damages over human rights violation.

The presiding Judge, Justice Mohammed Mohammed also awarded N200,000 as the cost of litigation and five percent monthly interest on the Judgment sum.

This is coming after Igwe had approached the High Court through his counsel, Bar Bala Ibrahim Zuru, over the alleged violation of his fundamental human rights in the state.

Respondents in the suit include the Commandant General, Abubakar Abdullahi Audi; the NSCDC headquarters, the State Commandant of the Corps, Namadi Nura, as well as Henry Bawa.

Mohammed held that the applicant is entitled to the right to dignity of human persons protected by Section 34 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic,1999, adding that, the actions of the first and second defendants as well as other agents of the third to the fourth defendants who allegedly kicked and beat the petitioner with sticks and fists inside the fourth defendant’s state office, located along David Mark Road, Minna, the state capital, among others were violations to his human rights.