BY DAILY TIMES
A blogger, Emmanuel Ojo, has sued Ogun State Police Command
and one Katib Biliamin, the Chief Security Officer to Governor
Ibikunle Amosun, for his arrest and detention, demanding N150 million as
damages.Ogun
State Governor Ibikunle Amosun
Ojo also asked the 1st and 2nd respondents to tender apology
for his unlawful detention in two national newspapers.
The blogger, who was arrested for posting on his facebook
walls, a story about the alleged London police quiz of the wife of the state
governor, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun, for being in possession of US$300, 000 is
asking for “an order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents from
arresting and or detaining him solely on account of alleged publication against
Mrs Amosun.”
Ojo, in an originating motion, on a notice filed in the
Federal High Court, Abeokuta Division by his counsel Ayodeji Eniseyin, is
seeking a declaration that his “right to personal liberty, freedom of movement
and dignity of his person guaranteed under Section 34, 35 and 41(1) of the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, were violated by the
respondents, their servants and/agents who arrested and detained him in
Abeokuta, Ogun State.”
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the matter.
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