The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against the State Security Service (SSS).
The judge, James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that Mr Kanu’s suit lacked merit and ought to be dismissed.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kanu, in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/482/2022 and filed by his lawyer, had sued the Director General of SSS, SSS and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) as 1st to 3rd respondents, respectively.
In the suit, the IPOB leader alleged that the SSS subjected him to different inhuman treatments, including torture and denial of his right to wear any clothes of his choice.
But Mr Omotosho held that there was no evidence that he was tortured or made to undergo forced labour in custody.
He said a right to dignity was not a right to change clothes as an inmate in prison.
“The applicant cannot come to court to seek for rights which are not in the constitution,” he said.
Besides, Mr Omotosho held that Mr Kanu failed to provide the photographs and names of inmates who were allowed to wear different attires while in custody.
He said the onus was on him to prove his case, but the applicant merely relied on bare facts without any evidence.
He described the IPOB leader’s allegations as “a hypothesis without concrete evidence.”
The judge, consequently, dismissed the case for lacking in merit.
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