A former Senator, Bode Ola, has instituted a N1bn suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, its Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, and some officials of the commission for alleged unlawful detention.
Ola, who was in the Senate between 2007 and 2011, in the suit filed before a Federal High Court, Lagos, is also seeking N2m as the cost of instituting the suit.
He is also demanding a public apology to be published by the respondents in two national dailies.
Besides the EFCC and Lamorde, other respondents are Tunde Aghomon, Ben Ubi, Kayode Oni and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, (SAN).
Ola, who represented Ekiti Central, described Aghomon, Ubi and Oni as officers of the EFCC “with personal responsibility for the events and injuries that gave rise to this action”.
In his statement of claim, he stated that the EFCC subjected him to “detention and inhuman treatment” from November 24 to December 6, 2011.
He added that the respondents abused “the legal process in violation” of his rights by first charging him before a Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti and later filing “identical charges on the same facts” against him at the Ekiti State High Court” without withdrawing the previous charge.
The former lawmaker, through his counsel, Mr. Ephraim Ugwuonye, wants the court to declare that the alleged “detention and treatment meted out to him while in custody as well as his subsequent prosecution by the respondents are illegal.”
He also wants the court to give an order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents from subjecting him to “further inhuman and degrading treatment” and another order restraining them from “further acts dangerous to” his life and health.
Ola said he had visited Lamorde at the Abuja office of the EFCC on November 24, 2011 following a phone call by Ubi requesting a meeting to discuss the payment of about N50,015,000 judgment sum to him.
The former Senator said he and his company, Friendly Hotel International, had obtained the judgment sum awarded against the EFCC in December 2010.
He, however, said instead of discussing the subject of his invitation, the respondents gave him “a document purported to be a fresh charge before the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti.”
He said he was subsequently transferred to Lagos where he was detained and threatened to abandon the pursuit of his judgment money.
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