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El-Zakzaky and Wife Sue AGF, DSS Over Passport Seizure, Demand N4bn In Damages
The chief of the Islamic Motion of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, have every slammed a N2 billion swimsuit in opposition to the Division of State Providers and the Lawyer-Basic of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
The swimsuit which is at a Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja challenges the seizure of their worldwide passports by the Federal Authorities regardless of severe well being challenges.
The Basic Rights (Enforcement Process) Guidelines 2009 and Sections 44, 37,36 and 46 (1) and (2) of the structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) was filed by Marshal Abubakar of Femi Falana chambers and a replica of the Court docket processes despatched to The PUNCH.
The Director-Basic of the Division of State Services, Yusuf Bichi and Lawyer-Basic of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) have been listed as first and second defendants within the case with Ref. No: FHC/ABJ/CS/ 229/2021 and FHC/ABJ/CS/230/2021.
The plaintiffs of their separate originating motion-on-notice have been in search of from the FHC a declaration that the seizure of their passport No A50578740 and A50578739 since Could 2019 was unlawful and unconstitutional because it violates their basic proper to freedom of motion assured by Part 41 of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and Article 12 of the African Constitution on Human and Peoples’ Rights Act (CAP A9) Legal guidelines of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
Different calls for have been an order of the Court docket mandating the respondents to pay over to the candidates “the sum of N2 billion as common and exemplary harm” for the violation of their “rights to freedom of motion, honest listening to and property” and an order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents from additional violating their “basic rights in any method in anyway and howsoever with out lawful justification.”
The couple additionally needs a declaration from the Court docket that the Pink Flag Travelling Restrictions positioned on their passports and land borders “by the respondents and not using a court docket order is prohibited and unconstitutional” because it violates his proper to honest listening to assured by Part 36 of the structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended) and Article 7 of the African Constitution on Human and Peoples’ Rights Act (CAP A9) Legal guidelines of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
The plaintiffs additionally need the Court docket to declare that the refusal of the respondents to permit them to journey overseas for medical therapy constitutes a menace to their lives assured by Part 33 of the structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.
In line with them, the Court docket ought to mandate the respondents to launch their worldwide passports with a purpose to allow them to entry immediate and satisfactory medical consideration as beneficial by their docs.
