A Minna based legal practitioner Barrister Yusuf Aliyu has dragged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun to Court for unlawful detention of two siblings Sani Goyize and Malle Goyize demanding for the immediate enforcement of their fundamental rights to personal liberty.
Joined in the suite include the Nigeria police force, the Police service commission,DC Mohammed Sanusi officer in-charge of IRT, Abdulrahaman Commandant IRT Katari Division,in Kaduna State, Alhaji Isah and Alhaji Suleiman Abubakar (Goma).
In an originating motion brought pursuant to section one of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999 (as amended), African charter on human and people right (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap A9 of the 1999 constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended among other relevant laws declared that the arrest and the detention of the applicants is unlawful.
In the suite marked Nat/law/1023A/2025,filed instituted before Minna High number, Yusuf Aliyu declared further, that the arrest, detention and torture of the applicants by the men of the Katari Divisional Police Command in Kaduna State Command in lieu of another offenders since the 6th of November by the respondents is an infringement of his fundamental rights.
Submitting further, the legal practitioner declared the arrest,tortures and continued detention of the two siblings by the 2nd,3rd,4th and 5th respondents without committing any offences “and without taking the applicants to a court of competent jurisdiction since their arrest on the 6th,of November, constitutes an infringement of the applicants fundamental rights to dignity of human personal liberty as guaranteed and protected by section 34(1) and 35(1) of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
Barrister Yusuf Aliyu prayed the court to restrain the respondents their agents,and privies from further harassing, intimidating and unlawfully arresting the applicants and order the court to awarding the sum fifty million Naira (N50,000,000.00) as general and N2,000,000 as cost of litigation damages for the applicants against the respondents jointly and severally.
He claimed that the applicants were arrested on the 6th, of November,2025, by the respondents in lieu of some “unknown persons" to the applicants whom the respondents alleged committed an offense and until the unknown offenders are produced the applicants cannot be released.
The legal practitioner sought the relief of the court that the arrest and continued detention of the applicants by the respondents in the cell of the Katari Divisional Police Command in Kaduna State in lieu of unknown offenders is illegal.
Justice Maryam Mahmud has slated the case for hearing to 2nd December, 2025.
