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Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by MosakuAW(m): 7:59am On Jul 03, 2015 |
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to pay a sum of N2m to one Lawrence Ejiofor as compensation for his prolonged and unlawful detention by the agency. To bear the judgment debt alongside the NDLEA is the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which the court also found culpable of having a hand in the violation of Ejiofor’s fundamental human rights. The applicant, through his lawyer, Dr. Chima Nnaji, had approached Justice Mohammed Yunusa, seeking a declaration that his detention by the two agencies for over 30 days without trial was unlawful. He also prayed the court to order the NDLEA to return to him a sum of $96,500 confiscated from him at the airport while returning from a trip to Tanzania. Nnaji had told the court that his client was arrested by operatives of the NDLEA for money laundering on April 16, 2015, on the suspicion that the money found on him was a proceed of drug-trafficking. According to Nnaji, Ejiofor was not allowed to declare the foreign currency at the Nigerian Customs Service Declaration Point, as required by law. Instead, NDLEA officials arrested the applicant for money laundering, saying they suspected the money to be proceed of drug business. After detaining him for over 30 days, they handed him over to the EFCC for further investigation. When the commission found that Ejiofor was not involved in money laundering, it discharged Ejiofor but still held onto the money. His lawyer sought a declaration that searching the applicant at the arrival tube before being able to declare the foreign currency on him was illegal as it violated his right to freedom from compulsory acquisition of moveable property, as guaranteed under Section 44 of the 1999 Constitution. He prayed the court to hold that the continued seizure of the $96,500 for several months was unconstitutional. Ejiofor sought N20m as compensation for his unlawful detention from April 16 to May 16, 2014. NDLEA had argued that the applicant’s arrest was lawful “given the suspicious manner he conducted himself on arrival at the airport from Tanzania.” Source: www.punchng.com/news/court-orders-ndlea-efcc-to-pay-man-n2m-2/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter |
Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by SPG4U(m): 8:00am On Jul 03, 2015 |
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Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by Nobody: 8:01am On Jul 03, 2015 |
Wow! Cool, free 2 million naira...... .......... Give me the address of that man |
Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by Young03(m): 8:02am On Jul 03, 2015 |
Anoda babe don show...@spg4u i didnt read dt |
Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by Nobody: 8:02am On Jul 03, 2015 |
They should have been ordered to pay at least times 10 of that amount. . . This is part of the CHANGE we seek. |
Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by Nobody: 8:04am On Jul 03, 2015 |
Neyoor:. . . . . . Bro, you wan go rob am ni? Or ask am for 10% ? |
Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by agarawu23(m): 8:05am On Jul 03, 2015 |
mumu efcc , you suspect the money is from drug trafficking? so it's written on it abi ? nonsense!!! 1 Like |
Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by jantofubu(m): 8:05am On Jul 03, 2015 |
God knws i didnt read d thread. |
Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by Nobody: 8:08am On Jul 03, 2015 |
modelmike7: 10% no too much for me nao, atleast dem dey pay 10% for church. |
Re: Court Orders NDLEA, EFCC To Pay Man N2million by VickJames(m): 8:13am On Jul 03, 2015 |
Bunch of corrupt officers. The officers involved should be arrested ASAP. They connived to pocket a hardworking man's money. This country is filled with bad people, 30days in detention without free trial or declaration of his foreign currency? This is a pure breach of human right. |
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