In a suit with Number FHC/ABJ/03/095/2018 filed by Mahmud Abubakar Magaji SAN, the President of Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Murray-Bruce have dragged the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to court.
The 3 lawmakers were among the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party who led a protest march to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Friday to protest against the outcome of the Osun State governorship election.
Reports had it on Friday that Saraki’s name was among lawmakers invited by the police but on Monday only Melaye and Murray-Bruce were named to appear before the Federal Capital Territory Command over alleged assaults on its men and destruction of its property.
The lawmakers, however, failed to answer the invitation. Instead, they are praying the court to, among others, direct the defendants to “jointly and severally pay the applicants the sum of N500m only, same being the pecuniary and exemplary damages arising from the humiliation, intimidation, harassment and unlawful attempt to arrest the applicants by the agents of the second respondent