The Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has awarded N50m damages against the Nigerian Army for the murder of Ajayi Oladele, who was said to have died as a result of a spinal cord injury he sustained when he was arrested and beaten by some soldiers in Warri in 2017.

Oladele was said to have been arrested and beaten by soldiers in their bid to help a businessman to recover a debt from the deceased.

Following his death, his widow, Esther Oladele, and their three children, filed the fundamental rights enforcement suit marked FHC/WR/CS/93/2017 against the Nigerian Army, one Lt. Col. T. A. Yakubu and Sergeant Hassan Hassan.

The suit was instituted on behalf of the plaintiffs by their lawyer, Mr Kunle Edun, who prosecuted the case for them free of charge.

Justice Emeka Nwite in the judgment delivered on December 10, 2019, declared that the four “plaintiffs’ right to life and therefore good and reasonable comfort of life have been violated by the acts of the defendants by the unlawful killing of Otunba Ajayi Oladele being that the deceased was the parent of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th plaintiffs and husband to the 1st plaintiff and also the breadwinner of the family.”


In the copy of the judgment seen by Punch correspondent on Wednesday, the judge made an order, “awarding the sum of N50,000,000 as general and exemplary damages jointly and severally against the defendants in favour of the plaintiffs as a result of the unlawful/wrongful death of Otunba Ajayi Oladele and for loss of consort, fatherly love/care, comfort and disruption of the family life of the plaintiffs.”

The judge also awarded N100,000 against the defendants and in favour of the plaintiffs as cost of prosecuting the case.

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Good news


FCT for the first time since I became a member here and am still waiting for my alert .....
abi UBA get network problem
Please who is in charge of the payment authorization, Lalalalalala

popsy2:
Will they pay ?

kellight:
Good news

popsy2:
Will they pay ?

THEY WILL NOT PAY

N50M or $50M

N50M for a life

A

No vex oh!

₦50 Million that a senator collects in about a year,is what a man's life is worth?

When Boko Haram members are collect ₦100 million in Borno

“Money Can't Buy Life” Bob Marley's last words on his death bed to his son Ziggy. Words to live by.

Them go pay am next century

They should pay the lifeless afonja his money o. No story Abeg

Buratai boys are killing people extra-judicially.

Wazobiamax22:
N50M or $50M

N50M for a life

No amount of money can replace a life, whether it is N50 million or $50 million.


Instead, try to salute the lawyer for attempting to give the family some form of "justice"

Nice.
But e remain make Army pay up

ghettokid1:

THEY WILL NOT PAY

once the case reaches dey appeal or supreme Court and dey still decline once dey court gives a garnishee order take to the bank the money will be transferred from dey army account straight

Too small.

N50m ? Only
For taking a life they can't create.

The Buhari model; They would appeal it up to the supreme Court where our Sharia CJN would look for technicality to set the judgment aside.

Just that?

50 million isn't bad. But we've a Bu...

Viking007:
Our courts are now AUDIO COURTS. Thanks to the dictatorship government. They'll not pay and nothing will happen.

Pls be careful bro.

You work for the govt., and they can do o.

The soldiers and the Oga that sent them should be courtmartialed and jailed for life.

popsy2:
Will they pay ?

Depends...........
Did they not go to court to defend themselves


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See the names of the soldiers ! They will never pay.