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Nigeria: Bisina Sues AGF, CDs, JTF Over Arrest
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Vanguard (Lagos)
12 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Emma Amaize
Lagos
FOUNDER and director of the Niger-Delta Professionals for Development (NIPRODEV), Mr. Joel Bisina who was seized by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger-Delta along with his four guests/colleagues from America while travelling to his country home, Ogbinbiri in Warri North local government area of Delta state, April 12, to shoot a movie has dragged the Attorney General of the Federation, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Commander of the JTF to court for alleged detention.
Also joined in the suit, which is before the Federal High Court in Benin-City, Edo State are the Inspector General of Police and the State Security Services (SSS). The application for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights is expected to be argued on 15 May.
Bisina who was released conditionally by security agents at Abuja is asking the court among other things to declare that his arrest at Oghara Junction (riverside) in Ethiope West local government area of Delta state by the JTF was unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, null and void; and that his torture and detention by the JTF, SSS and other agents of the Federal Government violated his fundamental right to life, respect for the dignity of his person, liberty and freedom of movement and association as guaranteed by Sections 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 41 of the 1999 Constitution.
He is also praying to court to hold that the purported request by the respondents, whether by themselves or by their servants, officers, agents or privies or otherwise, howsoever described, particularly by the personnel of the JTF (on deployment to the Niger-Delta- Delta state) and particularly from the applicant (Bisina) of a military/security pass, before he could move/travel to Ogbinbiri, Warri North local government area of Delta state (Niger-Delta), his home town in Nigeria is unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional, illegal, null and void.
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Besides asking the court to order the respondents to issue a public apology to be published in four national newspapers, he is demanding N5 million as damages for the unlawful detention and unconstitutional arrest and another N10 million for his illegitimate and undemocratic torture and detention.
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