Metuh sues EFCC over detention

Lagos Lawyer and human rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has asked the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, to order the immediate release of Chief Olisa Metuh, the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Olisa Metuh was arrested by the operatives of EFCC on January 5, in his house in Abuja and has been in custody since then, without access to his family and lawyers or doctors.

In the suit, No. FHC/L/CS/21/2016, filed against the EFCC and Attorney-General of the Federation, Adegboruwa is contending that under section 35 of the 1999 Constitution, the EFCC has exceeded the maximum time allowed by law for the detention of a citizen, without trial in any court.

He is also praying the court to restrain the respondents, whether by themselves, their servants, agents, privies whosoever from further constituting a threat to the life, liberty and freedom of the applicant either through arrest or by physical abuse or violence either generally or for the purpose of preventing or disturbing their free movement in any part of Nigeria.

He also want an order of the court, directing the respondents, whether by themselves, their servants, agents, privies or otherwise howsoever to forthwith release the application from unlawful custody.
Source: Vanguard

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