A Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has filed a N50 billion suit before the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, against President Muhammadu Buhari, the Department of State Services (DSS), its Director-General, Lawal Daura, and others over alleged violation of judges’ rights.
Other defendants in the suit No. FHC/ABJ CS/809/16, filed on October 14, include the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the National Judicial Council (NJC).
Ogungbeje, in the suit, alleged that the arrest of the judges without recourse to the NJC was unlawful and amounted to humiliation of the affected persons.
He added that the DSS operations violated the rights of judges under sections 33, 34, 35, 36 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution.
The plaintiff has sought 10 prayers, among which is an order awarding N50 billion against the defendants as general and exemplary damages.
He also asked the court to award additional N2 million as the cost of the suit, to issue an order compelling the DSS to return to the judges the said sums of money recovered from them and to grant a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from arresting, inviting, intimidating or harassing the judges with respect to the case.
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