Maina Drags Senate, Police to Court, Demands N1.5bn Damages
07 Feb 2013
Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina
Dele Ogbodo
The Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, Wednesday dragged the leadership of the Senate and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), before a Federal High Court in Abuja.
The Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, Wednesday dragged the leadership of the Senate and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), before a Federal High Court in Abuja.
He is accusing the agencies of breaching his fundamental human rights.
Maina is demanding an exemplary and general damages in the sum of N1.5 billion from the defendants
Maina is demanding an exemplary and general damages in the sum of N1.5 billion from the defendants
Maina said: “The resort to court has become inevitable because of the total denial of fair hearing, dispensation of naked injustice and severe persecution meted on him by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, Senator Aloysius Etuk.”
His counsel, Mr. Mahmud A. Magaji (SAN), leading three others in the suit, is seeking on behalf of Maina, an order to quash the purported report of the Senate committees’ resolutions.
He also wants the court to declare his arrest by the police as unconstitutional.
The case which has been slated for hearing next week Monday cited: The Senate, the Senate President, the Clerk of the Senate, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service. The Senate Committee on State and Local Government Administration, Inspector General of Police, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, Senator Aloysius Etuk, and the Chairman, Senate Committee on State and Local Government Administration, Senator Kabiru Gaya, as defendants.
The case which has been slated for hearing next week Monday cited: The Senate, the Senate President, the Clerk of the Senate, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service. The Senate Committee on State and Local Government Administration, Inspector General of Police, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, Senator Aloysius Etuk, and the Chairman, Senate Committee on State and Local Government Administration, Senator Kabiru Gaya, as defendants.
The counsel to the applicant, Mogaji, THISDAY was told, will appear in court for the adoption on behalf of applicant for the following orders: “An order setting aside the warrant of arrest the sixth respondent issued against the applicant on February 2, 2013 as same constitute a violation of the applicant rights as guaranteed under section 35(1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
“A declaration that the decision of the Senate through its joint Committees on Establishment and Public Service and on State and Local Government Administration directing the immediate arrest and detention of the applicant by the fifth respondent without any legal justification is unconstitutional illegal ultra vires null and void and of effect what so ever as same violates section 36(1) and section 6 (6) B of the constitution (as amended).”
Maina in the petition is also seeking to restrain the respondents especially the 3rd, 4th and 5th respondents, their agents, servants and privies from interfering with the management and administration of PRTT or initiating his arrest as Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team.
He argued that doing so was unconstitutional , illegal null and violation of the provisions of section 36 (1) and 6 (6) B of the Constitution, among others.
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