(CPJ/IFEX) – On 17 November 1998, the Lagos Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Wilson Egbo-Egbo, granted a judgement in the amount of 3 million naira (US$ 35,294.00) to Arit Igiebor and Obosa Igiebor (the wife and five-year-old daughter of “Tell” editor-in-chief Nosa Igiebor) for trauma inflicted upon the plaintiffs during a raid of […]
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 17 November 1998, the Lagos Federal High Court, presided
over by
Justice Wilson Egbo-Egbo, granted a judgement in the amount of 3 million
naira
(US$ 35,294.00) to Arit Igiebor and Obosa Igiebor (the wife and
five-year-old daughter of “Tell” editor-in-chief Nosa Igiebor) for trauma
inflicted upon the plaintiffs during a raid of their residence in September
1997.
**Updates IFEX alert of 1 October and 12 September 1997**
The lawsuit, which was filed in September 1997 by Arit Igiebor, Obosa
Igiebor, and Attorney Gani Fawehinmi, originally sought damages in the
amount of 11 million naira (US$ 129,411.00) against the State Security
Service, Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Coomasie, and then Attorney
General Agbamuche (now deceased). The SSS and the armed soldiers who
accompanied them were pronounced guilty of unlawfully invading the residence
in search of Nosa Igiebor and they were fined for the trauma inflicted upon
Arit Igiebor, specifically, the trauma inflicted upon her then
three-year-old daughter, Obosa Igiebor when SSS agents pointed a loaded
weapon at her head and demanded to know where her father was.
