….Demand N2bn damages
Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC) and its chairman, Barr. Hashim Abioye have sued the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun and the Osun State Commissioner of Police for the breach of basic rights.
In a go well with filed on the federal excessive court docket sitting in Osogbo, introduced in a consultant capability for themselves and on behalf all of the members and the complete workers, together with ad-hoc workers of the fee, the claimants have sued the defendants for breach and persevering with breach of their basic rights, unlawful arrest and detention, illegal sealing of the fee premises, risk of additional arrest and detention, unlawful seizure of fee’s properties. A sum of Two billion naira (N2Bn) can also be being sought as damages in opposition to the defendants amongst different reliefs.
Recall that the OSSIEC headquarters had been sealed off by the police a day earlier than the Saturday, February 22, 2025 native authorities elections within the state which barred workers from performing their lawful obligation.
According to obtainable sources from the authorized division of the fee, it was revealed that the fee is taking over the case in opposition to the Nigerian Police over the overzealousness of their males regardless of a court docket mandating safety companies to supply safety for the train.
A safety company is predicted to be impartial and supply mandatory safety for the folks of Nigeria, sadly, reverse was the case. Many of the ad-hoc workers have been arrested for committing no offence and up until now, no purpose had been given by the police for his or her continued detention.
The undeniable fact that APC guidelines on the federal who’ve management of the safety companies doesn’t give the approval for the police to only misbehave anyhow. This is democracy.