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Charly Boy Files N500 Million Lawsuit Against Nigeria Police

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Channel: Viable Tv · 2017 · News & Politics

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Activist musician and convener of OurMumuDonDo movement, Mr. Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy or AreaFada has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja over the violation of his rights to dignity of the human person, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association over the attack on the Resume or Resign protesters on the 8th of August, 2017.

Mr. Inibehe Effiong, a Lagos-based legal practitioner and human rights activist who is the counsel to Charly Boy in an Originating Motion dated the 4th October, 2017 filed the suit at the F.C.T. high Court on Wednesday, 4th October, 2017 against the Commissioner of Police, FCT Police Command who is joined as the Respondent in the suit.

In his written address in support of his client’s application with reference number FCT/HC/CV/3037/2017, Effiong is asking the court to determine the following two issues:
i) Whether the use of teargas canisters, water cannon and wild police dogs by the agents and officers of the Respondent to attack, harass and disperse the Applicant during a peaceful demonstration at the Unity Fountain in Maitama, Abuja on Tuesday, 8th August, 2017 is not unjustifiable, illegal, unconstitutional and a breach of the Applicant’s fundamental rights to the dignity of the human person, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association and contrary to Sections 34, 39 and 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and Articles 5, 9, 10 and 11 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

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