Suspects Demand N100m Damages Over Unlawful SARS Detention

Two suspects have sought an order of the court for a N100million compensation as damages for alleged unlawful arrest and detention by officers of the Special Anti-Roberry Squad (SARS), FCT Command of the Nigerian police.
The applicants; Adamu Salihu, a businessman, and Idris Bukar, a driver, in an originating motion filed on December 31, 2019, by their counsel, Modibbo Bakari, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, also sought for an order for immediate release of the two from the SARS custody.
While Salihu and Bukar are the applicants, the Inspector-General of Police; commissioner of police, FCT Command; deputy commissioner of police (CID), FCT Command; officer-in-charge of SARS, FCT Command, and one Aisha Abdulkarim pare 1st to 5th respondents respectively in the case.
The applicants had, in a motion ex-parte dated December 30 and filed December 31, 2019, prayed the court to direct the respondents to release them forthwith from detention unconditionally, conditionally or charge them to court if alleged to have committed any crime or offence known to law.
They also sought an interim order restraining the respondents whether by themselves, their agents, servants, privies, officers or howsoever called from further arresting or taking unconstitutional action against them in respect of the facts of the case pending the hearing and determination of the originating motion.