A High court in London has awarded former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, a damage of £1( about N400) over unlawful detention by British Home Secretary Amber Rudd.



Justice Cheema-Grubb agreed that Ibori was unlawfully held for one day, 18 hours and 10 minutes between December 20 and 21 last year.



She also said the Home Secretary “failed to have regard to her limits to detain” as attempts were made to claw back millions from the fraudster.



Ibori who had claimed £4,000 in damages was awarded a nominal £1 of the sum he had claimed.


The judge ruled: “There is no compensatory loss to Mr Ibori and I fix nominal damages at £1.”



Ibori was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment after being found guilty of 10 serious charges in April 2012 at Southwark Crown Court.



Having spent some time in custody in the United Arab Emirates, he was due to be conditionally released from prison on December 20 2016.



But the Home Office disclosed that there was no intention to deport Ibori to Nigeria until he handed over at least £57m “proceeds of crime”.



An email stated: “we cannot deport Mr Ibori until the confiscation matter has been resolved”.


High Court Mrs Justice May on December 2, 2016, the day after his due release date, ordered Ibori to be freed on conditions, describing the attempts to detain as “quite extraordinary”.



The judge noted: “You don’t hold someone just because it is convenient to do so and without plans to deport them.”



The judge rejected a Home Office application that Ibori be electronically tagged and subject to strict curfew conditions, after the judge accepted arguments that the Home Secretary was attempting to abuse her immigration and deportation powers.



Ibori left the UK on February 3 2017, but launched his claim for damages for false imprisonment and breach of his rights under the 1998 Human Rights Act.



Ibori was detained in the context of awaiting the making of an assets confiscation order, and likely subsequent efforts to recoup a sum at least £57m.



The judge ruled:


“In this case, the secretary of state has been wrong-footed by the failure of the prosecution to achieve determination of its confiscation proceedings against Mr Ibori prior to his release from prison on licence”.


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£1 convert to #400only.. My guy no gree go collect ur £3,999.

Laughing out Loud!!

Only one day of unlawful detention, what about the remaining days he spent in jail? What does he have to say about those?

Ironically is a lot of money.. he physically go back to the sum..

Some kind judgement sef go make victim begin cry. How much will his lawyer get out of the £1?

hahahahaa

Ibori no want gree sha

Imagine!

Dem use '"He's awa tiff''rub am


Hahahhhhhaha

ciscoxx:
£1 convert to #400only.. My guy no gree go collect ur £3,999.

Na you wan pay the balance?


If na you send am gimme make I give am

verygudbadguy:
Mockery of the highest order.

The funny thing is this; Some people still see Ibori as a saint compared to the kind of stealing and corruption happening in the recent time. That means that if the set of crooks that we have now are more sophisticated than Ibori, then, we are in for something else.

Sometimes, I pity myself for growing up in this kind of setting. After a hectic day at work, you will get home to meet darkness and loud noise from generators everywhere in the street. Chai!

You need to take the bull by the horn. Men don't complain!

#408 hmm

The British re a very terrible set of people ,when they want to confiscate money from our corrupt politicians, they usually do it with much gusto and to the last kobo and when they re meant to pay compensation they start foot dragging and all of a sudden become miserly ...

I don't blame them anyway, rather I blame our selfish politicians who won't invest in this country...

MONITZ:
The British re a very terrible set of people ,when they want to confiscate money from our corrupt politicians, they usually do it with much gusto and to the last kobo and when they re meant to pay compensation they start foot dragging and all of a sudden become miserly ...

I don't blame them anyway, rather I blame our selfish politicians who won't invest in this country...

just imagine the billions Delta state lost to UK government,all Ibori investment are outside Delta with no benefits to Deltans