In connection with the attack that occur in lekki by some robbers.suspect sue nigerian police by #1m s

One of the four suspects paraded by the
police in connection with the March 12,
2015 robbery of the Lekki branch of First
City Monument Bank, Ebi Tosan, has sued
the police.
He is seeking N1m as damages.
The 20-year-old, who was arrested on
April 5, 2015, claimed that it was unlawful
for the police to continue to keep him in
detention without admitting him to bail.
Tosan, who was paraded by the police
along with three others – Duke Odogbo, 38;
Lawrence Kingsley, 31; and Ekelemo Kuete,
30 – is seeking an order directing the
police to immediately release him on bail.
The suspect’s lawyer, Chief S.W. Baidi,
argued that the suspect’s continued
detention without bail was an
“infringement and curtailment of the
applicant’s constitutional right to personal
liberty, freedom of movement and
presumption of innocence.”
Tosan is seeking a declaration that his
arrest, torture and continued detention by
the State Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja,
without bail was a violation of his human
rights, preserved by sections 34(1)(a), 35(1)
(4) and Section 41 of the 1999 constitution.
In a 26-paragraph affidavit filed in support
of the originating summons, one Tamuno
Amos, who described himself as the
suspect’s uncle, said that his nephew’s
continued detention by the police was a
deliberate act to “extract a confessional
statement from him on the alleged
offence.”
Amos, who said he had not been allowed to
see his nephew since his arrest, claimed
that “the applicant is suffering on daily
basis without access to food, bath and
other conveniences and he may die in
custody if not granted bail.”
The suspect had on July 9 secured an order
of Justice Lateefa Okunnu of a Lagos State
High Court in Ikeja, directing the police to
produce him in court on July 16.
On Thursday, however, when the matter
came up, the police did not bring the
suspect to court and his originating
summons slated for hearing could not be
heard.
Okunnu, while adjourning hearing of the
application till October 22, however,
ordered that the Lagos State Attorney
General should be joined as a respondent.
She added that if there was any urgency,
the applicant could appear before October
22 before another judge who would be
sitting during the court’s annual vacation,
which begins next week.
The original respondents in the suit are the
Lagos State Commissioner of Police and the
Head of SARS, Ikeja, Abba Kyari.
In the said robbery on Admiralty Way,
Lekki, Lagos, a gang of armed robbers,
which Tosan and others allegedly belonged
to, reportedly stormed FCMB in the
afternoon of March 12, wearing military
uniform and engaged the police in a gun
battle before carting away about N15m
from the bank.
About five persons, including three
policemen and a fish hawker, were
reportedly killed while several others
sustained injuries during the shooting
spree said to have lasted about 30 minutes.
Source: PunchNg