A group of lawyers have instigated a suit against the Rotimi Ameachi led-Rivers State Government with the petition filed specifically to the Attorney General of Rivers State, the Chief Registrar of the High Court, the Judicial Service Commission and the Commissioner of Police over what it termed as the continued breach of the fundamental human rights of over three thousand legal practitioners in Port Harcourt.
The Rivers State members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, are therefore requesting damages to the tune N500 Million from the State.
The State Chairman of the NBA, Mr Denis Okwapkam, while speaking to newsmen said that legal practitioners were tired of the Government politicizing the issue of the State Judiciary.
They have therefore contested their denial of entry into the High Court complex and the impoundment of their official vehicle via the legal action and have also petitioned the State Government:
“The Port Harcourt branch of the NBA has instituted a Fundamental Human Rights Action at the Federal High court in Port Harcourt against the Attorney General of Rivers state, the Chief Registrar, the Rivers state Judicial Service Commission and the Commissioner of Police, Rivers state for the sum of N500 million as exemplary damages for the continued breach of the Fundamental rights of the over 3000 members of the Association in Port Harcourt” he said.
Concluding his statement, the Chairman of the PH chapter of the NBA disclosed that, “From the available Court processes filed in the matter in Suit No. FHC/PH/FHR/146/2015, the applicants are claiming that the respondents have denied them access to their offices within the High Court Complex in Port Harcourt, since the 12/9/2014 and the records of their members and detained their coaster and Hiace buses.”
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