A former Commissioner for Foreign and International Affairs in Imo State, Fabian Ihekweme, has sued the Nigerian Police over his prolonged arrest and detention.
Ihekweme filed the fundamental rights enforcement suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, demanding an order for his immediate release, having been arrested on November 28 in Abuja and whisked to the State Criminal Investigation Department in Owerri for detention without trial.
In the suit filed by his counsel, Kingdom Okere, Esq, the citizen is asking the court to make an order “compelling, mandating and directing the defendants (Nigerian Police Force Headquarters in Abuja and Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command) to immediately release or grant the applicant bail, pending the investigation, or charge him to court, as stipulated in Section 35(4) & (5) and 36(1) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended).”
He is also demanding the sum of N5 million in damages against the Imo State Command of the police for the “unlawful harassment, assault adoption/arrest and detention, persecution.”
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Recalling the incident of the husband’s arrest, the wife of the former commission, Excel Ihekweme, said some men arrested her husband near their residence in Abuja as if it was a “kidnap”.
She admitted that her husband, who had fallen out with Governor Uzodinma and led to his removal from office, had recently criticised Uzodinma’s style of governance.
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