Notorious kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike also known as Evans, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement action before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, urging the court to order the police to charge him to court or release him immediately.
The suit which was filed on Wednesday and marked FHC/L/CS/1012/2017, has Nigeria Police Force, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Lagos State Police Command as respondents.
ALEDEH recalls that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) paraded Evans and members of his gang on June 12.
The development came after the kidnap kingpin was arrested in his mansion in Magodo estate in Lagos on Saturday, June 10 by the police Joint Special Forces led by the Intelligence Response Team, the Lagos State Police Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit and Technical and Intelligent Unit of the Force under the supervision of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State.
However, since the kidnap kingpin was arrested by the police, he has not been charged to the court which has prompted him to file a suit against the Police.
In a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed on his behalf by a Lagos-based attorney, Olukoya Ogungbeje, the Anambra state born kidnapper is seeking for a court’s order directing the respondents to immediately charge him to court if there is any case against him in accordance with Sections 35 (1) (c) (3) (4) (5) (a) (b) and 36 of the Constitution.
The notorious kidnapper is on the alternative seeking for an order compelling the respondents to immediately release him unconditionally in the absence of any offence that will warrant his being charged to court, adding that his continued detention by the respondents since June 10, 2017, without being charged to court or released on bail is an infringement on his fundamental human rights.
