Funminiyi Afuye, the Ekiti State Commissioner for
Integration and Inter-Governmental Affairs, along with 11 others, has been
charged with the Nigerian Terrorism (Prevention) Amendment Act. The charge
stems from a recent political demonstration back on the 8th of June, where one
man was killed, and scores arrested in what started out as a peaceful assembly
by members of the All Progressives Congress in Ado Ekiti.
The federal terrorism charge, considered very serious by
Nigerian legal experts, is dubious, say critics of federal officials in Abuja,
because of its timing.
In his suit filed at the Ekiti
State High Court, Ado-Ekiti, Afuye demanded N1 billion as “exemplary damages”
for his unlawful detention and physical assault by Selenkere.
That suit was filed last week before a federal high Court ,
FCYT Division, on Wednesday June 11th by one DSP Oloye Torugbene of the
Legal/Prosecution Unit at the Police Force Criminal Investigations Department
in Abuja, is also defective on the grounds of jurisdiction.
The three count
charge stems from complaints by the police. However, several Ado-Ekiti
residents who witness the brutality of the police, stated that the local police
there had attacked supporters of the All People’s Congress (APC), who had
legally assembled, and had used brooms as a symbolic gesture in ‘cleaning up
the local government’ a day after President Goodluck Jonathan endorsed the
People’s Democratic Party candidate, Ayo Fayose at a well attended rally.
Source: Saharareporters
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