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The Makurdi High Court in Benue State has awarded N50 million as damages against the Nigerian Export-Import (NEXIM) Bank over the unlawful arrest and detention of its former Managing Director, Robert Orya, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
The court tongue-lashed the EFCC and the IGP “for turning themselves tools of persecution in the hands of the NEXIM Bank authorities”.
It ordered them to apologise to Mr Orya.
Mr Orya had filed the suit marked MHC/2393/2020, against the EFCC, the IGP, and NEXIM Bank, among others, accusing the defendants of breach of his fundamental human rights to freedom of movement and to own property.