Most of you will remember when SSS officials detained and harassed El-Rufai last year November during the last Anambra State Governorship elections? Mr El-Rufai after the harassment approached the court for redress and here’s the outcome.
Almost one year gone, Justice Ibrahim Bature Gafai of the Federal High Court today held that the SSS has no statutory powers under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 or under any Nigerian law to detain Mr. El-Rufai without showing cause to a court of competent jurisdiction.
The court therefore ordered the SSS to publish an apology in two national dailies for the unlawful and unconstitutional violation of his liberty and also pay him N2 million in damages for unlawful detention.
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