The Inspector General of Police and
majority leader of the Delta State House of
Assembly, Chief Monday Igbuya, have been
dragged before a Sapele High Court in Delta
State, by Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Delta
Guide Newspapers, Prince Orhomunokpaye, who is asking for N100 million as
aggravated exemplary damages, for
unlawful arrest and detention for 22 days. Others joined in the legal action as
respondents are the Assistant Inspector
General of Police, Zone 5, Benin City, Edo
State, Commissioner of Police, Delta State,
Area Commander, Ughelli, and Divisional
Police Officer, DPO, Sapele Police Station, CSP Kenneth Akubue. Orhomunokpaye is praying the court to
declare that the remand order made against
him for 22 days, instigated by the 1st to 8th
respondents via the 9th to 14th
respondents, being agents of the 11th to
14th respondents on the grounds that he lied on oath, was wrongful. He also prayed the court to declare that his
arrest and detention by the 9th to 14th
respondents over a factual publication
made/or published by his publishing outfit
(Delta Guide newspaper) is wrongful,
unlawful and infringement of his fundamental human rights
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