Diran Odeyemi Slams IGP Egbetokun, Osun CP With Lawsuit.. Alleges Human Rights Violations
A former PDP National Deputy Publicity Secretary, Dr Diran Odeyemi has slammed the Inspector General of Police, Dr Kayode Egbetokun with a lawsuit.
He has filed a lawsuit at the Federal High Court , Osogbo, Osun State capital, accusing the police of violating fundamental rights.
Also joined in the suit that was dated November 7, 2024, is the Osun State Commissioner of Police.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Prince Odeyemi, in an affidavit in support of originating summons, accused armed agents of the defendants of invading his residence in Ibadan on October 26, 2024, without prior notice.
The plaintiff said the invasion of his residence and an alleged attempt to unlawfully arrest him was part of the plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to silence leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State.
Odeyemi also added that APC National Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje had on 20th of October, 2024, declared in Akure, Ondo State capital, that the party had a secret strategy to recapture Osun State for the APC, adding that what played out at his residence was part of the broader plans of the party in question.
The plaintiff is asking the court to determine whether the attempt and threat by the defendants and their agents to arrest him on willful investigation of some stalwarts of the APC do not constitute an infringement of his fundamental rights to personal liberty, freedom of movement, expression and association.
The ground of the originating summons includes, ‘The plaintiff by virtue of sections 35, 39, 40, 41 and 46 under Chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and under the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights is entitled to enjoy his rights to personal liberty, freedom of movement, freedom of expression and freedom of association.
The Plaintiff, being a citizen of Nigeria, has the right to move freely without any inhibition, express his thoughts, associate freely, and enjoy his dignity without being harassed, intimidated, or hindered in any way or manner.
The Defendants and their officers are rigorously attempting to violate the plaintiff’s fundamental rights to personal liberty, freedom of movement freedom of expression, and freedom of association by threatening and planning to intimidate, harass, molest, and unlawfully arrest and detain him on willful instigation of some politicians within the All Progressives Congress who are hell-bent on framing the Plaintiff in order to silence him, as part of the All Progressives Congress secret strategy to recapture Osun State and wrestle power from the Peoples Democratic Party in the State in 2026.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress boastfully stated in Akure on the 20th October 2024 that the APC had a secret strategy to recapture Osun State from the Peoples Democratic Party but that he would not reveal the secret and his threatening statement was widely reported in the media.
In what appears like the commencement of the secret political machinations, the agents of the Defendants, at the instance of some APC politicians and without having ever invited the Plaintiff, invaded the Plaintiff’s home on the 26th day of October 2024 in an attempt to unlawfully arrest, detain, harass and intimidate the Plaintiff but they failed because the Plaintiff was not in the country’-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
