Nigeria: Brass Violence - Court Halts Arrest of Bayelsa Council Chairman

28 October 2018

A Bayelsa High Court sitting in Yenagoa has granted an exparte order restraining the Inspector General of Police, the Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police and the Nigeria Police from arresting Caretaker chairman of Brass Local Government Area, Mr. Victor Isaiah.

Isaiah had approached the court to enforce his fundamental human rights after he alleged that no fewer than 20 police officers stormed his residence in Yenagoa in September to arrest him on the orders of the IGP following the eruption of crisis in the council area.

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