An Osun state high court sitting in Osogbo has ordered the Osun state police command to pay, a whopping sum of 6 million naira as compensation for violating the fundamental human rights of two applicants.
The two applicants are Yusuf Adepoju and Muddathir Kewudirorun.
In the judgement, which was handed down by Justice A. Oyebiyi in suit number HOS/M.157/2021, he stated that the applicants had proved their case against the respondent.
The applicants accused the police of invading their private homes without prior notice at about 3:00a.m. on November, 16, 2021, for reasons unknown to them.
Justice Oyebiyi, held that infringing on fundamental rights of innocent civilians was against the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1991, as amended.
He went further to say that the applicants privacy and their family were threatened by the police for carrying out such raids in the late hours of the night.
Abdulfatai Abdulsalam, the applicants counsel, while commending the court for the judgement, decried the rate at which fundamental human rights of innocent Nigerians were being clamped upon for unknown reasons.
He encouraged the police to stop the act without any proper invitation that warrants to either search or make arrest legally.
