by the immediate past President of Federal Republic
of Nigeria (the
Defendant) as the National Security Adviser to the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, an office he held until removed in July, 2015 by the present
Administration.
The Defendant is a Member State of the Economic Community of West
African
States
(ECOWAS)
and
a signatory to its Treaty,
Protocols,
Directives and Regulations as well as the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the
African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.
The Applicant avers that at about 6.40pm on the 16" July, 2015, while he
was about breaking his Ramadan fast, his house was unlawfully invaded
and several items and properties including cars and monies were taken
away
by the agents
of the Defendant,
Applicant and Members
subjected
to
severe
that during this invasion the
of his family who were in Abuja home, were
psychological
and
emotional
torture
and
were
restrained from receiving any visitor during or allowed to leave the house.
That this was done without any lawful order or warrant.
That the Applicant’s homes were subsequently vacated by the Agents of
the Defendant on the 17" July, 2015 without any reason given for the 24
hours invasion and with a promise to be back for him. That Applicants
further avers that his aged father of about 90 years old staying in his