The suit filed against Air Peace Limited, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and others over alleged right abuse has suffered set back, following the withdrawal of the trial judge, Justice Chuka Austine Obiozor from hearing it.
Air Peace customer dragged to court for attempted Aircraft hijacking, other charges
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By Lawani Mikairu
The Nigeria Police Force has sued a businesswoman Mrs. Nneka Ogbonna and preferred two-count charges of aircraft hijacking and flight disruption on an Air Peace flight scheduled to depart Lagos for Warri on December 10, 2019.
According to the charges, the passenger had caused a delay of over 80 minutes on the flight by refusing to disembark from the Aircraft as ordered by the pilot following a series of extremely disturbing and disorderly conducts exhibited by her.
The charges are contained in a Federal High Court (Lagos Division) documents accessed by journalists, and dated January 25, 2021, with the case title ‘Federal Republic of Nigeria (Complainant) vs Mrs Nneka Ogbonna(Defendant)’.
Judge returns Air Peace file for re-assignment
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe
Justice Chuka Obiozor, the trial judge in the over N2bn fundamental rights suit against Air Peace and four others, has returned the case file to the administrative Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Lagos for reassignment.
A businesswoman, Nneka Ogbonna had filed the suit marked FHC/L/CS/1206/2020 against the airline and a pilot with the airline, Captain Horace Millar-Jaja, the Inspector-General of Police, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria for accusing her of being a terrorist and hijacker.
Ogbonna, in the suit, sought an order of the court directing Air Peace Limited, NCCA, FAAN and Captain Millar-Jaja, to pay her the sum of N500m each, as damages for the alleged multiple infringements, violations and breaches of her fundamental human rights including her right to dignity, freedom of movement and for the cost of instituting the suit.