Abba Kyari demands damages from NDLEA over Detention

The super cop, Abba Kyari, now suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), has demanded N500 million in damages from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, over alleged unlawful arrest and detention.

As seen by the Mouthpiece NGR News in an originating motion on notice that is marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22 and filed by Kyari before the Honourable Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, Taoheed says he also wants for an order directing the NDLEA to tender a written apology to him in two national dailies.

Dated February 16 and filed February 17 by his lawyer, C. O. Ikena, the motion wants an order “restraining the respondent (NDLEA), its agents, servants, police, privies or anyone acting on their behalf from further harassing, detaining, intimidating, arresting the applicant unlawfully.

“An order of this court directing the respondent to pay the sum of N500,000,000.00 (Five hundred million nairas) to the applicant, for unlawful violation of the applicant’s constitutional right provided for in Sections 35 and 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended).”

In the motion to enforce his fundamental rights, Kyari also wants a declaration that his arrest and detention by the NDLEA “without bringing him before a court of competent jurisdiction from February 12 till date is unlawful, illegal, and a great violation of basic human rights.