Rights violation: Court slams N10m fine on EFCC, others

“I hereby declare that the arrest and detention of the
applicant from May 15 to May 16, 2023, was unlawful and violated the
applicant’s fundamental rights.

“The harassment of the applicant in a matter already decided
by the court is a violation of his right, and the 1st to 3rd respondents
exceeded their bounds.

“The case of the applicant succeeds, and the respondents are
ordered to pay the sum of N10 million severally or jointly to the applicant for
violation of his fundamental rights, ” he held.

The judge also ordered the respondents to pay the sum of N2
million as cost for the action.

Kundera through his counsel, Dr O. Orji, in suit no
CV/6258/23, told the court that he was invited, detained, and refused
administrative bail in a matter decided already by an FCT High Court.

He said that the subject matter was a plot of land at the
foreign affairs quarters which lawfully belonged to him.

According to the applicant’s counsel, the matter is also
pending at the Court of Appeal in a suit marked CA/ABJ/CV/533/2021.

Orji told the court that the applicant was 75 years of age
and did not find it funny being dragged about even when the judgment of the
court was shown to the respondents.

The lawyer therefore prayed for the order of the court to
declare that the arrest and detention of the applicant from May 15 and May 16
was unlawful.