RULING FAVOURS LAMIDO SANUSI.

A Federal High Court in Lagos gave an order that the Federal Government should pay the suspended CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi the sum of $300,000 (N50 Million) as damages for seizing his passport without due process.

Judge Ibrahim Buba, who ruled in favour of the Plaintiff, Sanusi, said the actions of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) “deserve condemnation” and ordered it to return Sanusi’s passport immediately.

Buba added that the DSS has no power to seize the passport of any citizen without due process.

The Defence attorneys for the SSS said Sanusi's passport was seized because they had evidence he was financing terrorism in Nigeria.

But the Plaintiff's Counsel said the allegation was an "Afterthought" by the Federal Government and he wasn't charged with any crime involving terrorism.

The Judge added that, the SSS should make a public apology to the plaintiff for violating her rights to freedom of movement.

SOURCE: NIGERIA WE SERVE