Some retirees of the agencies under Federal Ministry of Aviation,
have slammed a N10.2 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit on the
agencies before the Federal High Court in Lagos over their alleged
illegal and forceful eviction from their quarters.
The retirees
are also seeking an order of perpetual injunction restraining the
agencies from arresting, intimidating, harassing, humiliating,
detaining, evicting or disturbing them in any manner whatsoever.
The
applicants in the suit are: Oni Babatunde, MoshoodJimoh, TemitopeTubi,
NwokeOgbonna, and BryankKaduru, and 35 others, who are former employees
of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Nigerian Airspace
Management Agency (NAMA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).
SOURCE : LEADERSHIP.NG
While
the respondents are; Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Nigerian
Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria (FAAN), director-general of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority
(NCAA), director-general of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria
(FAAN), and director-general of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency
(NAMA).
Other respondents in the suit are: commissioner of Police, Lagos State, and inspector-general of police (IGP).
The
applicants in their originating summons are seeking a declaration that
their arrest, harassment, detention by the Lagos State commissioner of
police, and IGP at the instigation of respondents on August 6, 2016,
without any cause of lawful excuse is wrongful, Illegal unlawful,
unconstitutional, null and void, as it violates their fundamental rights
as enshrined under sections 33,34,35 and 36 of the 1999 Constitution of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
