An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama has restrained the Nigerian Police Force and the Department of State Services from arresting Senator Ovie Omo-Agege over Wednesday’s invasion of the Senate and theft of the Mace.
The Chief Judge of the High Court, Justice Isahq Bello, gave the order on Thursday following an ex-parte motion Omo-Agege filed through his lawyers.
The court ruled: “An order of interim injunction restraining the respondents, their agents and/or servants arresting and/or detaining the applicant either in their custody of any other law enforcement agency, or its servants, agents or privies or through any person working in concert with the respondent as its agents, by whatever means or however described pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed in this suit.
“An order of interim injunction restraining the respondents, their representatives, agents or privies, howsoever described from any attempt or threat to violate the applicant’s fundamental right to personal liberty and right to freedom of movement pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed in this suit.
“An order of interim injunction restraining the respondents from taking any or further steps detrimental to the applicant’s aforementioned fundamental rights to the applicant’s rights in connection with the facts stated in this matter pending the hearing of the motion on notice filed in this suit.”
The court held that the order would persist until a fundamental right enforcement suit Omo-Agege filed before it is heard and determined.
Cited as Respondents in the suit were the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN); Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris; Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, Sadiq Bello; and the Director General of the DSS, Lawal Daura.
Justice Bello adjourned hearing on the substantive suit, marked: FCT/HC/CV/1522/2018, which he transferred to Justice Usman Musale of the High Court in Jabi, till May 7.
Mace theft: Court stops Police, DSS from arresting Omo-Agege
