Okio dragged the state Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, the police and the Attorney-General of the state before the state High Court sitting in Yenagoa challenging his “continued unlawful detention.”
Okio, who was bundled from his Abuja residence to Bayelsa State by security operatives was initially believed to have been abducted by unknown gunmen.
But the police in a statement signed by the Acting Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Peter Ogboi, confirmed that Okio was being detained in the state police command.
The police claimed his arrest and detention was part of an investigation into alleged activities of a syndicate specialised in spreading seditious information.
Okio’s travails started shortly after he allegedly published in his Facebook page that a certain South-south governor was recently arrested in the United States of America with $5million.
But Okio in a suit slated for hearing on November 6 is asking the court to award him N2billion for his unlawful arrest and detention and N20million as damages for the pain, trauma, anguish and loss he suffered from the activities of the defendants.
He wants the court to declare that his arrest and detention is contrary to section 35 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He also wants a declaration that his “arrest and detention on the basis of a publication on his Facebook account was a brazen violation of his fundamental rights.”
He prayed the court to rule that the physical and mental torture he has been subjected to amounted to a denial of his right to dignity.
The Nation
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