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Immigration detention: ECOWAS Court orders Nigeria to pay German N63 6m, $10,000

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered the Nigeria government to pay N53,650,925 to a German, Martin Gegenheimer. The money is special damages for losses suffered and costs incurred while he was under unlawful arrest and detention by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). Justice Edward Amoako Asante also ordered Nigeria to pay N10,000,000 in general damages as reparation for all violations and moral prejudice suffered for the violation of his rights. Furthermore, the federal government must pay $10,000 to Gegenheimer being the expenditure incurred to secure his bail. The court ordered the “immediate and unconditional release” of his German passport which was “arbitrarily and unlawfully” seized, as well as his removal from the government’s watch list.

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