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Nnamdi Kanu Lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor Gets N52 Million Compensation Against Security Agencies For The Unlawfull Invasion At His Residence
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead lawyer of Nnamdi Kanu, the acclaimed chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra, IPOB, has been awarded the sum of N52m by a Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Awka, Anambra State.
The courtroom led by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, gave the ruling following the invasion of the the lawyer’s house by safety operatives of the Federal Authorities.
This judgment got here two years after safety brokers invaded Ejiofor’s house through the burial of his brother in Oraifite.
In accordance with the decide, the safety operatives grossly violated the lawyer’s basic rights and consequently awarded the sum of N50m in opposition to the Nigeria Police, Nigerian Military and different safety businesses.
The cash is compensation for the gross violation of Ejiofor’s rights.
The courtroom additionally awarded N2m as value for the motion in opposition to the Police and the Military.
In an announcement he made out there to reporters on Friday, titled, ‘Justice delayed will not be at all times justice denied,’ Ifeanyi Ejiofor stated his home was on December 2, 2019, attacked by safety brokers whereas he was burying his late elder brother, Rev Chukwukpelum Ejiofor.
He recounted that through the invasion, the safety operatives killed 4 individuals in his compound and burnt down all the homes inside his ancestral house.
“Justice Dimgba of Courtroom No 2, Federal Excessive Courtroom Awka Judicial Division awarded me the sum of N50m in opposition to the police and Military and N2m as value for the motion nonetheless in opposition to the police and Military, which is cumulatively N52 million. I instituted a swimsuit for the enforcement of my basic rights grossly violated by the stated safety brokers,” the lawyer stated.
“The Federal Excessive Courtroom in Awka, Anambra State, on Thursday, December 2, 2021 delivered a well-considered judgment in my favour.
“The judgment might have been delayed, however the truth that the courtroom discovered that my rights have been grossly infringed upon, will go a protracted strategy to assuage the pains and trauma I’ve been passing via previously two years, on account of that horrible and heart-wrenching expertise.
“I return all glory to the Almighty Chukwuokike Abiama. Might the spirits of the harmless souls killed in that bloody invasion proceed to hang-out those that killed them until the tip of time. Isee!!!”
