By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt
A State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered the Nigerian Army to pay the sum of N20 million as damages to the Chairman of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State and two other persons, for harassing them during the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Nigerian military had raided the homes of Roland Sekibo, Tobins Tobins and Damiete Dokubo and declared them wanted over allegations of sponsoring hoodlums to truncate the electoral process to favour the PDP in the state.
However, the court yesterday in Port Harcourt declared that the actions of the military against the three persons were anti-democratic.
In his judgement in the suit filed by Sekibo and others, Hon. Justice George Omereji, condemned the military for issuing a statement indicting the Executive Chairman of Council, Sekibo, and the others as the mastermind of events that occurred on the 23rd of February during the 2019 Presidential and National…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
