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Speaker 1: Federal High Court in Abuja has other First City Monument

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Bank FCMB and Nigerian Army to jointly pay the sum

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of four hundred and sixteen million, six hundred and fifty

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thousand nerus as damages for conspiring together an illegally placed

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post no Debate PND without valid court order on the

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account of a bank customer, Major Akim Adouba or Seni,

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who was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for manslaughter. The

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court in its ruling noted that FCMB may have acted

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out of fear of the Nigerian Army. Both. The court

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ordered both FCMB and the Nigerian Army to jointly pay

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the sum of one hundred million neyrus as general damage

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and three hundred million neyrus as exemplary damages as a

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deterrent to the bank and the military institution that none

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of them is above the law or have the right

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to uselve the powers of a law court or deny

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a bank customer the fundamental right to own a movable

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and immovable property anywhere in Nigeria as enshrined in the Constitution.

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It will be recalled that the Nigerian Army officer Major

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Akim Adoba Useni in twenty twenty was convicted by a

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General Court Marshal in Abuja and thereafter he escaped from

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court premises and was later apprehended in Many Republic at

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the Kutenu International Airport around merjor Osni was one of

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three Army personnel jailed in February twenty twenty for ten

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years over the death of a Lance Corporal Benjamin Collins.

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Some soldiers were detained and were queazed by the Army

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Headquarters Garrison in relation to how Usini escaped in the

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first instance, but Court of Appeal later sent Oceni free

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from the manslaughter conviction. Justice jk Oloto of the Federal

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High Court in Abuja gave the order in a judgment

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delivered on October twenty eighth and whose certified true copy

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was made available online by family and friends of Major Lsinni.

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According to the court document, the applicant me or sending

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herd sued the Nigerian Army and First Centimonument Bank as

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first and second respondents, respectively, in a suit marked FHC

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abj C S eleven GO for twenty twenty one for

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pleasant his account on a post No. Debt from February

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twenty twenty. The applicants had in the Fundamental Human Rights

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suited ned September thirteen, twenty twenty one and filed on

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September twenty second, twenty twenty one, so thirteen reliefs, among

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which are a declaration that the act of the Circondrespondent

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FCMB pleasant the personal account of the applicant do missile

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at first Centimonument Bank with account number two six five, six, one,

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five two or one three on post no debate from

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February twenty twenty till nets on the directives of the

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first respondent Nigerian Army without a valid court order now

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affording the applicants adequate time and facility to be held

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is illegal, wrongful, on lawful and constant a blatant valulation

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of the applicants fund the mental rights to a flair hearing,

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the presumption of innocence rights to unmovable and immovable property

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anywhere in Nigeria, as enshrined in sections thirty six, one,

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thirty six, five, forty three and forty four of the

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nineteen ninety nine Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,

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as altered sections on one end two of the Administration

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of Criminal Justice Act twenty fifteen and Articles two, three, two,

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four and seven two of the African Charter on Human

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and People’s Rights, Ratification and Enforcement at top a nine,

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Loss of the Federation of Nigeria, two thousand and four,

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A declaration that the humanization of the applicant by the

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operatives of the first Respondent while in the custody for

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ten months is illegal, wrongful on lawful and constitutes a

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blatter valulation of his fundamental human rights as enshrined in

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sections thirty five, one, three, four, thirty seven and forty

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one one of the nineteen ninety nine Constitutions of the

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Federal Republic of Nigeria, as altered sections one one, two

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and thirty one two, thirty two, one, two and three

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of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act twenty fifteen and

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Articles six and twelve of the African Charter on Human

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and People’s Rights Ratification and Enforcement at top a nine,

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Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, two thousand and four,

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A declaration that the continues denial of the applicants access

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to his funds is a blattens this regard of his

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constitutional provision to unmovable and immovable property, as there was

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no called other granted to that regard. Therefore illegal, wrongful, unlawful,

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and constitutes a blatant virulation of the applicants from the

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mental rights as enshrined in sections thirty five, one three,

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forty one and forty three of the nineteen ninety nine

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Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as altered and

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sections one two and thirty one, two three, two one,

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two three, two one, two and three of the Administration

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of Criminal Justice Act twenty fifteen and Articles six and

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twelve of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights

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Ratification and Enforcement at calf A nine Loss of the

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Federation of Nigeria, two thousand and four, among others. The

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applicants account was placed on P and D following the

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manslaughter investigation that alleged need took place in his office.

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The applicant, who was a filmed officer the week and

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attempted jail break accord, was asked alongside other officers to

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take out the soldier Drill and relocate him to a

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separate detention facility within the cantonment. The soldier was at

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onwards handed over to the applicant to drill from jump

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forward role and counsel, which he did as instructed. Later

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that day, the applicant was told that the soldier was

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struggling with his leg cough. He was rushed to the

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Defense medical headquarters, where he was confound dead. After arrival,

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the applicant was curt marshaled by the army and pronounced

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guilty of manslaughter, thereafter sentenced to ten years in prison.

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The Court of Appeal, however, distrashed and acquitted the applicant

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in the Landmark appeal on October at the first, twenty

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twenty two, and he was released from Cuja Correctional Center

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on November first, twenty twenty two. Upon his imprisonment, his

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account was placed on p and D, restraining him from

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accessive money for his family. According to Pont newspaper, the Court,

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in its judgments, according to the copyment available as news items,

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held that the evidence before the court shows that respondents

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acted arbitrarily and over their powers in their dealings with

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the applicants, particularly in these respects. The joint action of

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the respondents to place the personal account of the applicant

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on a post no devid since February twenty twenty two

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deaths without a valid court order or affording the applicant

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the right to be held as constitutionally guaranteed. The action

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of the first respondent to conduct a search in the

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Gestapo manna and remove cash and vuluables from the applicant’s

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private apartment without a valid search warrant, then the humanizing

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treatment of places the applicants on handcuff and led chain

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while in the custody of the first respondent before the

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confirmation of his sentence by the Army Council. Failure of

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the first respondent to grant bill to the applicant within

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twenty four hours or forty eight hours of his arrest

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the tension pending confirmation of his sentence by the Army Council.

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Justice or Laughton therefore ruled that the first and second

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respondents collided and conspired to illegally freeze the applicants account.

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The first respondent is loved the power of the court

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to order a freezing of the account by instructing the

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second respondent to freeze the applicant’s account. Ironically, the applicants’

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finance was not implicated in the investigation of the case

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of manslaughter against him. And the second respondent, knowing better,

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either for fear of the first respondent or for reasons

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best known to it, obed the first Respondent’s instructions and

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froze the applicant’s account. Whatever angle their conducts are viewed from,

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they acted clearly outside their powers. They probably taught that

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they were above the law, but the principle of exemplary

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damages will now tell them and show them that they

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are not above the law, and that the law has

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no respect for anyone who breaks it. It was a

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big stake which it used and will now use to

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correct the abusive and excessive tendencies of the respondents. The

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first respondent and also acted more than its powers in

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the humanizing the applicant. The applicant claimed the sum of

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two billion miers award of general and exemplary damages. I

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award one hundred million mirus as general damages and three

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hundred million miers as exemplary damages against the respondents jointly

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and severally in favor of the applicant. Justice although held

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bregate you renee in a mortgage is away,