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Unlawful detention: Court orders Kano AG to pay N60m compensation

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4 years ago

February 15, 2020

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TRACKING______Kano State Attorney-General has been ordered by the Court of Appeal to pay the sum of N60 million as compensation to one Muhammad Abubakar for unlawful detention for nine years without trial. Justice Oludotun Adebola Adefope- Okojie, who presided over the matter, said it was wrong for the Kano High Court that tried the case in the first instance to have refused to heed to most of the reliefs sought by the appellant despite the avalanche of denials that the plaintiff suffered in detention.

The court also ordered the office of the attorney-general to tender a public apology to the appellant in newspapers well circulated in Kano State. Counsel to the appellant, Usman Umar Fari, had initially filed a fundamental human rights enforcement action at a Kano State High Court against the attorney-general of Kano State and state police commissioner seeking a declaration that the arrest, detention and torture of his client by the respondents without trial for nine years constituted a violation of his human rights.