Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has formally sued the Nigeria Police Force over an alleged invasion of his house and killing of four occupants.
Ejiofor also asked the court to stop the respondents from threatening him with arrest and torture and to compel them to retract the public notice made on December 3, which declared him wanted and to also tender apology to him in five major newspapers and any other form of reparation.
The Herald gathered that the lawyer, who has since been declared wanted by the police over his alleged complicity in the murder of some policemen accused the security agency, in the fundamental rights enforcement suit, of invading his house and killing of four occupants.
Ejiofor, in the suit marked: “FHC/ABJ/CS/135/19, filed by a lawyer, Maxwell Okpara, is seeking, among others, an order to compelling the defendants to pay him N2 billion as compensation and damages for the burning of his house and shooting of his aged mother by the police at his Oraifite hometown in Anambra State on December 2 this year.
“Listed as defendants in the suit are the Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of Police, Area Commander, Divisional Police (DPO) in Anambra State, the Nigerian Army, Chief of Army Staff, Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF).”
The Herald gathered that Ejiofor had been declared wanted over the killing of two police officers in Anambra state. The state command of the Nigeria Police Force made the declaration on Tuesday, December 3.
The reports stated that some irate youth in Oraifite under Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State on Monday reportedly killed two policemen for allegedly attacking the house of Ejiofor.
A source in retaliation for the attack on the lawyer’s house said youths in the community killed the two policemen and burnt them at the Nkwo Market area of Oraifite. Commissioner of police in the state, John Abang, disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Awka, the capital, on Tuesday.
He said: “I’ll like Nigerians to know that Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor (a member of the proscribed IPOB) has been declared wanted. I’ll seek the cooperation of law abiding Nigerians, East, West, North and South that wherever they find this individual, they should report to the nearest police station for possible arrest and prosecution based on the rules and laws of Nigeria.”
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