Sokari Egop, counsel to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mustapha SanDaura; and the commander of the E-crack Commander, SP Benson Adetuyi has said his clients are not responsible for the death of Chima Ikwunado.
This is as a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Tuesday asked the Counsel representing Adaugo Chima Ikwunado, wife of late Chima Ikwunado to regularise her court processes before the next adjourned date in the fundamental right suit against the police.
Justice James Omotosho issued the directives when the Applicant’s Counsel read out her prayers to the court, and the court noticed errors in her applications.
Justice Omotosho told the Applicant’s Counsel to effect the corrections in her processes to reflect the enforcement of the right to life, right to dignity that was breached, and not for those whose fundamental rights have not been breached.
Egop, while speaking to journalists outside the court room said the several applications filed by the Applicant’s Counsel which is duplicating the same action is an abuse of court process.
He said that his clients are not responsible for the death of late Chima Ikwunado, stressing that the Commander in charge of the E-Crack Squad was not aware of what the officers did.
The Judge adjourned the case to the 17th March.
Earlier during the court proceeding, Princess Lawrence, Counsel to Applicant, Adaugo Chima Ikwunado while trying to move her application, was informed of some errors in her prayers.
Sokari Egop had told the court that the Applicant applications ought to have been a singular suit as the subject matter is an abuse of court process.
Princess Lawrence said they will narrow their application to one person rather than file several applications.
She said that the several applications filed are to make the police sit up, in order to avoid such an occurrence, as they are demanding the sum of twenty billion naira as compensation, adding that they will narrow their application to the widow of the deceased.
