EndSARS:The Court Has Dismissed The Suit Filed By Fouani Nigeria’s Ex-Employee, Alleging Torture By The Nigerian Army
EndSARS:The Court Has Dismissed The Suit Filed By Fouani Nigeria’s Ex-Employee, Alleging Torture By The Nigerian Army
The employee, Akpan S. Jonathan, had accused his former employer, Fouani Nigeria Limited, of engaging soldiers to torture him after he was suspected of being part of the hoodlums that looted the company’s stores during the protests.
Defendants in the suit were the Nigerian Army, his former employer, Fouani Nigerian Limited and Mr Mustapha Kharis, a Lebanese serving as the company’s general manager.
The applicant claimed he was arrested and detained by officers of the Nigerian Army at Mambilla Barracks, on instigation of his boss, alleging he was “beaten, tortured and given dehumanizing treatment” in detention which allegedly landed him in a hospital after he was released.
The applicant then sought an order of court for general damages against the respondents while asking the court to restrain security agencies from arresting him over the alleged invasion of his former employer’s stores.
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an ex-employee who alleged that he was tortured by the Nigerian Army during the EndSARS protests in 2020.
Kharis maintained that during the ENDSARS protests, employees of the company whose employment were terminated were discovered to be among those who led hoodlums into the warehouse of the company and looted virtually everything in the showroom and store.
In his written address, the lawyer representing the company and its general manager, Chief David More B. Orji, described the applicant as a gold digger whose job was terminated in 2019
The court noted that Jonathan’s medical report showed that the drugs administered to him were for malaria treatment, not injuries sustained from torture.
The court also held that the time frame within which the applicant got the medical report defeated his earlier arguments that he was immediately rushed to the hospital after the allegedly came out of detention.
This application cannot stand and same is discountenanced by this court. As a consequence, the applicant’s application is hereby dismissed for lacking in merit, ” the court declared.
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