Abujatalk.Com

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday fixed 21 June to hear the suit instituted by Mustapha Fawez, Abdallah Tahini and Tala Ahmed Roda, Lebanese owners of Amigo Supermarket who are suspected to have imported arms  into the country for terrorist activities. The suspected arms importers sued the Director General of State Security Service, SSS, the Inspector-General of Police and the Attorney-General of the Federation for closing Amigo Supermarket and Abuja Wonderland Amusement Park, the businesses they own and operate in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. The court had earlier directed the defendants to produce the suspected terrorists before the court for the purpose of hearing of their case. The presiding Judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola had made the order for the suspected terrorists to be brought before the court following an ex-parte application by counsel to the suspects, Chief Robert Clarke, Ahmed Raja, both senior advocates with 12 others lawyers. They are also ch...

The State Security Service (SSS), on Thursday, brought three Lebanese before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja in compliance with an earlier court order. The SSS, however, said it is against national security to release the three suspects who were arrested in connection with armed cache found in the Kano house of one of them. Justice Adeniyi Ademola had on Monday ordered the SSS to produce the accused persons in court. The order was sequel to an ex parte application brought by the suspects through their counsel, Robert Clarke (SAN), seeking for the enforcement of their fundamental human right. But in a counter affidavit deposed to by an operative of the SSS, Mr Terseer Ayaka, in opposition to  the application, he said the security agency had further established a much more serious terrorism offences allegedly perpetrated by the applicants. SSS further said that investigation had assumed international dimension that required time and expertise. It stated that some of th...

THE co-owner of Amigo Supermarket, Abuja, Mustapha Fawaz and three Lebanese-Abdalah Tahini, Talal Rouda and Khosai Nouridine- arrested over the Hezbolla arms bunker uncovered in Bompai, Kano state have filed a suit before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. They are demanding for N50 billion as compensation from the State Security Service, the Director General of SSS, Ekpeyong Ita and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), for their unlawful arrest and detention without trial. They have also asked the court to stop the respondents from extraditing them except by a procedure permitted by law. In the application for the enforcement of their fundamental rights filed by their counsel, Bamidele Aturu, the applicants asked the court to declare their arrest and continued detention without trial by the SSS on various dates as “illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional, null, void and of no effect whatsoever.” They also prayed the court for...