Court Orders Police To Pay Charly Boy N50m For Attacking Him During #ResumeOrResign Protests

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Resume or Resign Court Orders Police To Pay Charly Boy N50m For Attacking Him During #ResumeOrResign Protests

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja presided over by Justice John Tsohoon has ordered the Nigeria Police Force, the Inspector General of Police and the Commissioner of Police FCT Command, to pay the sum of N50million and publish an apology in two national newspapers to popular musician and activist, Charles Oputa, better known as Charly Boy.

In the suit, filed on March 29, 2018 by Inibehe Effiong, his lawyer and human rights activist, the 67-year-old musician gave a graphic account of how policemen numbering more than 100 from the FCT Police Command invaded the Unity Fountain in Abuja on August 8, 2017 and attacked him and his group with tear-gas canisters, hot water cannons and wild police dogs during the ‘Resume or Resign’ protest when he led other activists to protest the prolonged absence of President Muhammadu Buhari from Nigeria on account of his medical vacation in the…



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