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Translate Home » News » EXTRA: ECOWAS Court orders FG to pay N63.7m, $10, 000 to German over unlawful arrest, detention EXTRA: ECOWAS Court orders FG to pay N63.7m, $10, 000 to German over unlawful arrest, detention On By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has ordered the Federal Republic of Nigeria to pay the sum of N53, 650,925 to a German national, Mr. Martin Gegenheimer, as special damages for various losses suffered and costs incurred while under unlawful arrest and detention by the Nigerian Immigration Service. The court held that the cost was mainly to offset hotel expenses incurred by the German while under forced detention by the government. ....
TODAY Economic Community of West African States/ECOWAS The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered Nigerian government to pay a German national about N63.6million and $10,000 for his about 11 days of illegal detention by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) last year. Martin Gegenheimer married to a Nigerian citizen but based in Nairobi, Kenya, had in his suit filed at the court in Abuja claimed that he was illegally detained between February 24 and March 4, 2020. Gegenheimer, a professional aviator with specialisation in commercial airline start-up, had said he was arrested at the boarding gate of the Kenya Airways aircraft while leaving for Nairobi on February 24, 2020. ....
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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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