FALANA DRAGS OGUN MONARCH TO COURT, DEMANDS N200M AND PUBLIC APOLOGY

Femi Falana, human rights activist and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
Femi Falana a popular Nigerian human rights lawyer has filed a lawsuit against Oba Semiu Ogunjobi, the Olorile of Orile Ifo, Ogun State, seeking N200 million in damages for the alleged assault of 73-year-old Elder Areola Abraham Love.

The lawsuit which was filed before the Ogun State High Court, Ota, on Friday 7^th March, 2025, aims to enforce Elder Love’s fundamental human rights to dignity, freedom of movement, and life, as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Falana has argued that the lascivious attack on Elder Love on January 21^st, 2025, constituted a threat to his life and violated his fundamental rights. Falana in this suit did not stop there as he is also demanding a public apology in The Punch, Vanguard, and Nigerian Tribune newspapers.

According to this motion filed on behalf Elder Love, Falana urged the court to among other things declare “That the slapping and punching of the head, systematic beatings, kicking and striking of the applicant (Elder Love) by the respondent (Oba Ogunjobi) and his agents before a crowd of people at Orile Ifo, Ifo, Ogun State on January 21^st, 2025 constituted a threat to the life of the applicant and thereby violated his fundamental human right to life guaranteed by Section 33/34 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and article 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap A10 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

The Human rights lawyer also asked the court for “an order directing the Respondent to pay the sum of N200, 000, 000.00 (two hundred million Naira) to the Applicant for the violation of his fundamental rights to life, dignity, and freedom of movement and overall order directing the Respondent to publish an apology to the Applicant in the Punch, Vanguard, and Nigerian Tribune Newspapers.

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