The embattled leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the
Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday
obtained court injunction from an Owerri High court restraining the
Commissioner Police, Imo State and his agents from carrying out their
threat of arresting or declaring him wanted should he fail to honour
their summons over the crisis rocking the group in which four persons
died.
The Imo State police command had on Thursday during press briefing
summoned the MASSOB leader to appear before the commissioner within 24
hours to explain his role or involvement in the fracas that had resulted
in the death of four members of the group at the Okwe Freedom House,
Headquarters, or be declared a wanted person in the state.
However, Chief Ralph Uwauzurike in his application for an order for
the enforcement of his fundamental right, maintained that the police
never extended any invitation to him whether orally or written, stating
that such action of the police constitutes gross violation of his
fundamental right to fair hearing as provided under the 1999
Constitution as amended and is therefore unconstitutional, null and
void and of no effect whatever.
In suit No: HOW/ 549/2914 filed against the Commissioner of Police,
Imo State, by his lawyer, Barrister Emma Chukwuka, the MASSOB leader is
seeking a declaration that the threat by the respondents to declare
him wanted when no invitation whatever was given to him, when he has
not committed any offense known to law to warrant such declaration
constitutes a violation of his rights to liberty as provided under the
said constitution and therefore null and void and of no effect
whatsoever.
He pleaded for an order to restrain the respondents, and their agents
from declaring him wanted as he did not commit any offense warranting
the respondents to declare him wanted, and injunction restraining the
respondents, either by their servants, agents or privies from any
manhunt of him and from further violation of his fundamental rights and
from arresting or detaining him when he has not committed any offence
known to law pending the determination of the suit.
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