COURT OF APPEAL JOS DIVISION ORDERS EFCC, THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE PLATEAU STATE TO PAY N5MILLION NAIRA TO VICTIM OF VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHT

In a Judgement delivered on Thursday 14th May, 2020 the Court of Appeal Jos Division Ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Commissioner of Police Plateau State Command and others to pay one Ephraim Kapara Galadima the Sum of Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) as Compensation for Violating his Fundamental Human Rights.

The Judgement which was unanimously agreed by the three Justices of the Court of Appeal was delivered by his Lordship Hon. Justice Mudashiru Nasir Oniyangi of the Court of Appeal Jos Division in Appeal No. CA/J/349/18 filed by the Applicant/Appellant through his Counsel Gyang Zi Esq.

The Court of Appeal set aside an earlier
Judgement delivered on the 9th may 2018 by Hon. Justice I. I Kunda of the High Court of Plateau State in Suit No. PLD/J/631/ 2017 wherein he dismissed the Appellant/Applicant’s Suit against the Commissioner of Police Plateau State Command, A.M. Awal (DCO A Police Division), Fidelis Odey (DPO, A Police Division) Austin Ogah (Branch Manager FCMB, Jos), First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

It is the case of the Appellant that his account with First City Monument Bank (FCMB) was frozen and when he approached the Bank to inquire why his account was frozen, he was arrested, beaten and taken to A Division, Jos Plateau State Command by the Police where he was detained for over Five days before his subsequent transfer to Abuja and Portharcourt where he was further detained without informing him of the offence he committed.

While discharging First City Monument Bank (FCMB) of the alleged Violation of the Rights of the Appellant on the ground that the Bank only acted on the instruction of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Court condemned the action of the EFCC, Commissioner of Police Plateau State Command and their agents and Ordered them to pay the Sum of Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) to the Appellant having found that his Fundamental Human Rights under Chapter IV of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as Amended) were violated.

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Human Right Violation: Jos Appeal Court Orders EFCC, Plateau Police Commissioner to Pay N5 million to Victim