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

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Wow! Cool, free 2 million naira...... ..........


Give me the address of that man

Anoda babe don show...@spg4u


i didnt read dt

They should have been ordered to pay at least times 10 of that amount. . . This is part of the CHANGE we seek.

Neyoor:
Wow! Cool, free 2 million naira...... ..........


Give me the address of that man

. . . . . . Bro, you wan go rob am ni? Or ask am for 10% ?

mumu efcc ,

you suspect the money is from drug trafficking?

so it's written on it abi ?

nonsense!!!

God knws i didnt read d thread.

modelmike7:
. . . . . . Bro, you wan go rob am ni? Or ask am for 10% ?

10% no too much for me nao, atleast dem dey pay 10% for church.

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.