Uwazuruike drags Imo Police Command to court, demands ₦100m damages

By Nwabueze Okonkwo, Onitsha

The laminitis of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and person of the Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has filed a suit against the Imo State Police Command astatine the High Court of Imo State, Owerri Judicial Division, implicit an alleged breach of his cardinal quality rights.

In the suit, filed done his counsel M. O. Anyanwu Esq. of Fidel Deum Attorneys, Uwazuruike is seeking ₦100 cardinal arsenic wide damages for alleged violations of his rights to liberty, state of movement, and peaceful assembly, arsenic guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the African Charter connected Human and Peoples’ Rights.

The respondents successful the suit see ACP Oladimeji Odeyiwa (Commander, Tiger Base, Owerri), ASP John Ebute, ASP Eze Jet, Inspector Alice Zakari, the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, the Nigeria Police Force, and the Police Service Commission.

Uwazuruike, successful his motion, is asking the tribunal to state that a constabulary invitation dated October 16, 2025, directing him to look astatine the Anti-Kidnapping Unit (Tiger Base) connected October 20, 2025, violates his rights. He claimed the day coincides with a planned nationwide peaceful protestation demanding the merchandise of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

He further prayed the tribunal for an bid of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents from further harassing, inviting, oregon detaining him.

In an affidavit supporting his application, Uwazuruike stated that helium had lived peacefully successful Owerri and had not been antecedently invited by the constabulary until aft helium publically declared his enactment for a peaceful protest.

His counsel argued that the constabulary enactment breached his law rights to liberty and state of question and urged the tribunal to assistance each the reliefs sought.

The case, which galore observers picture arsenic a important trial of Nigeria’s committedness to cardinal rights, is expected to travel up for proceeding astatine the High Court of Imo State successful the coming days.

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