Kanu’s lawyer sues DSS for alleged rights violation, demands N50m

Maxwell Opara, one of many attorneys for the chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has sued the Division of State Providers (DSS) on the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Abuja, for alleged rights violation.

In a swimsuit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1018/2021 filed on Monday, the lawyer is demanding N50 million compensation for alleged infringement on his rights.

The DSS Director-Common, Yusuf Bichi, was additionally listed as a respondent within the swimsuit.

Opara claimed that the DSS molested him when he visited Kanu on the company’s facility on August 30.

He’s looking for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the DSS and its representatives from interfering together with his proper to dignity of the human individual and freedom of motion throughout his routine go to to the IPOB chief.

He additionally requested the court docket to compel the key police and its Director-Common to difficulty a written apology and publish identical in two nationwide every day newspapers, amongst different calls for.

No date has been mounted for listening to of the swimsuit.