Fani-Kayode’s estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu, drags him and IGP to court, demands N800m as damages

Former magnificence queen and estranged wife of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, Valuable Chikwendu, has filed a swimsuit at a Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja, looking for the enforcement of her elementary human rights.

In line with the court docket papers filed by her lawyer, Abdul-Aziz Jimoh, Valuable listed Fani-Kayode, Inspector-Common of Police, his officers and means defendants and is demanding the sum of N800m as damages. Different respondents listed within the swimsuit embrace the Deputy Inspector-Common of Police, Power CID, Commissioner of Police, FCT, CSP James Idachaba (OC Authorized CID), FCT Command.

Valuable within the swimsuit stated she was demanding the stated quantity due to the roles the respondents have performed in “intimidating and harassing” her through the pendency of her custody swimsuit.

The mum of 4 requested the court docket to restrain the IGP, his officers and males from intimidating and harassing her in any type, pending the listening to and willpower of her swimsuit looking for the custody of the 4 youngsters she had with Fani-Kayode.

As a part of her calls for within the court docket papers, Valuable requested the court docket to grant an order implementing her elementary human rights as she was apprehensive of an imminent violation of such rights within the actualization of alleged threats to her life by Fani-Kayode and within the face of the nonchalant and refusal of the primary, second and third respondents (IGP, DIG Power CID and CP FCT) to analyze her real petitions of menace to life towards the fifth respondent (Fani-Kayode).

She looked for a declaration that she was not sure to honor the invitation of the primary to fourth respondents in relation to a purported conspiracy and forgery of court docket information through the pendency of swimsuit no CV/372/2021 between her and the fifth respondent.

In an affidavit in assist of her court docket software, Valuable stated that

“I used to be in a most tempestuous and violent relationship with the fifth respondent (Fani-Kayode), a professional authorized practitioner, a politician and a former minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The fifth respondent and I’ve 4 youngsters collectively and I’m forcefully separated from our youngsters, who’re all minors.

Consequent upon the unbridled violence perpetrated towards me by the fifth respondent and the forceful separation from our youngsters, I filed a swimsuit within the Excessive Courtroom of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with Swimsuit No CV/372/2021.

Relatively than enable the contending issues positioned earlier than the FCT Excessive Courtroom to be decided by the honorable court docket, the fifth respondent has persevered in utilizing the Cops beneath the management of the primary respondent (IGP) and supervised by the second respondent (Commissioner of Police FCT) incessantly to intimidate and harass me with a view to interfering within the adjudicatory powers of a reliable court docket of justice.”

Chikwendu stated she had additionally petitioned the Commissioner of Police, FCT, the third respondent, alleging threats to her life by the fifth respondent and that the Police Commissioner had refused to behave on her petition, thus prompting her to go to court docket to implement her elementary human rights.

No date has been mounted for mentioning of the matter.