Edo Community Drags IGP, Iduoriyekemwen, Others To Court Over Community Disturbance


Edo Community Drags IGP, Iduoriyekemwen, Others To Court Over Community Disturbance

 

By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City

The Oke-Oroma community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State has filed a suit against the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Hon Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, Peter Irhionmwen popularly known as Ebo-Amagba who is the current Youth Leader in Amagba and Arosomwan Uwuigbe the Vice Chairman of Amagba Community.

In the suit filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja with suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/148/2025, the applicants, Gaius Emokpae, Wilfred Ebohon Emokpae, Obazee Patrick and three others expressed that the respondents has carried out several severe threats of lives and destruction of properties incessantly.

In the applicants’ claims, they alleged “threat of lives, intimidation with constant attack using arms, continuous visitations with the aim to kill, abduct, arrest, and surveillance of the residence of the applicants both in Benin City and Lagos State by the respondents, their agents, servants, privies, officers” and they described it as “dastardly barbaric, horrendous, illegal and unconstitutional and brutally oppressive as it violates the applicants’ and their families right as guaranteed by section 35 (1) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999”.

The applicants went further to declare that they are entitled to the enjoyment of their rights as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“That an order of interlocutory injunctions restraining the respondents, their agents, servants, privies, policemen and officers, suspected cultists or otherwise or however called from further inviting, tracking their phones, harassing, threatening, intimidating, assaulting and arresting the applicants”, they declared.

In claimant, the applicants demanded that a sum of one hundred and twenty million naira be paid as compensation by the respondents jointly for the “several breach of her fundamental rights”.

The petitioners reiterated the ground for filing the suit that, “The applicants are citizens of Nigeria”.

They further pray that the constant nocturnal visitation to the applicants’ residences, both in Benin City and Lagos State, be stopped.

“The constant intimidation, harassment, and threats of arrest and detention of the applicants by the respondents is a violation of the applicants’ fundamental human rights”, they said.


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