Chairman
of the Pension Reforms Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has dragged the
Senate and Inspector-General of Police before a Federal High Court in
Abuja demanding a N1.5bn damages.
He is seeking among other things, the setting aside of the warrant of arrest issued against him by the police.
The plaintiff, in the suit filed by
Mahmoud Magaji (SAN) and obtained by reporters on Wednesday, is also
seeking the enforcement of his fundamental human rights.
Besides the Senate and the Police
chief, other respondents are the Senate President, David Mark; Clerk of
the Senate; Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service;
Senate Committee on State and Local Government Administration; Senator
Aloysius Etuk (Chairman, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public
Service), and Senator Kabiru Gaya (Chairman, Senate Committee on State
and Local Government Administration).
Maina, who prayed the court to set aside
the warrant of arrest by the IG against him on February 2, 2013, said
the same constituted a violation of his rights as guaranteed under
Section 35(1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
He urged the court to declare that the
decision of the Senate, through its committees on Establishment and
Public Service as well as the State and Local Government
Administration, directing his arrest and detention without any legal
justification was unconstitutional, as it violated section 36(1) and
section 6 (6) B of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
The plaintiff also sought an order
restraining some of the respondents and their agents from interfering
with the management and administration of PRTT.
Maina, who prayed the court to issue an
order of perpetual injunction, restraining the respondents or their
agents from further harassing him, also solicited the quashing of the
Senate resolution on his arrest.
The case will come up for mention on Monday, February 11.
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