Showing posts with label Court orders Police to pay N20m for assaulting lawyer. Show all posts
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Monday, February 20, 2017

Court orders Police to pay N20m for assaulting lawyer

An Owerri High Court has awarded N20 million as damage against the police for assaulting an Owerri lawyer, Chukwuemeka Amaghiro, last year.

In his judgment, Justice K.A. Orjiako said the respondents were found guilty of gross violation of the applicant’s right.


Amaghiro in 2016 filed a suit of violation of his right against the Police Service Commission, Nigeria Police, Commissioner of Police in Imo State and the OC D8 SARS Investigative Police Officer, Bassey Ikpa, for assaulting him.