Federal High Court has adjourned to 1st of March, 2023 for Judgement on GROSS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS ABUSE APPLICATION AGAINST ICPC (INDEPENDENT CORRUPT PRACTICES AND OTHER RELATED OFFENCES COMMISSION) AND MR. KABIR ELELU (COMMISSIONER LAGOS STATE)

NBA, SERAP, HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS APPEAR IN COURT, DEMAND JUSTICE

A Federal High Court before Ringim J. has adjourned till the 1st of March, 2023 for Judgement on a Fundamental Rights Abuse Suit filed on behalf of the applicant (a senior lawyer) by a learned Senior Advocate of Nigeria, F. Chijioke Okoli SAN of Delphi Law Advisory LP, Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria.

The applicant compellingly detailed the facts of his case and how he was almost beaten to death, in his 36 paragraph affidavit (including video evidence) telling how the Lagos State Commissioner at ICPC, Mr. Kabir Elelu and his officers wickedly and in absolute disregard of his fundamental rights, beat him to the point of a dislocated shoulder, knee and other grievous body injuries, (as evidenced in his Lagos State General Hospital, Lagos Island Medical Report and Awolowo Road Ikoyi, Lagos Police Report).

He further detailed how he was dragged across the ever busy Okotie Eboh Street Ikoyi, Lagos into the ICPC office like a common criminal.

The ICPC, being a security agency, the applicant sort, among other things, the presentation to court a CCTV footage of surveillance of the ICPC Lagos premises on the day and material time of the incident, for the whole world to see things for themselves.

The applicant's own secretly recorded footage shows him being helped into a commercial Bolt taxi, like a vegetable.

ICPC through its representatives in court: Ebenezer A Shogunle Esq.; Dennis Idoko Esq.; Olubunmi A. Ikupolati Esq.; Yvonne William-mbata (mrs); Roselyn N. Eze (mrs); David A. Nwaze Esq. filed a Notice of Preliminary Objection arguing that the Lagos Commissioner Mr. Kabir Elelu the 2nd Respondent was served in Abuja along with ICPC, the 1st Respondent, even when it's affidavit on support affirmed that "the 2nd Respondent was informed and further that he confirmed the incident happened in Lagos".

The other grounds are that "the mode of commencement of applicant's claim by way of Originating Motion is irregular".
Arguing through Mr. Shogunle that applicant should have come to court by way of "writ of summons for enforcement of his fundamental rights"

Applicant's offence? Taking a telephone call as he walked past the ICPC Lagos State Commissioner's office (Mr. Kabir Elelu) upon exiting the premises after visiting the Legal Aid Council office in the same shared premises.

Because the applicant's arrest and detention was without a court order whatsoever, he has requested for adequate compensation and public appology, as made automatic by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
SUIT NO. FHC/L/CS/1975/2022