About 50 Niger state civil servants have dragged the immediate past
governor of the state, Babangida Aliyu, before a Minna high court.
The civil servants are accusing Aliyu of unlawfully seizing their
motorcycles and are demanding N100m as compensation for general damages,
According to the civil servants, the governor violated their fundamental human rights by seizing and selling their motorcycles.
In a suit filed on May 25, 2015, by their counsel, Barrister Adegoke Omoloja of Cosmic Chambers, Abuja, they asked the court should declare the seizure and subsequent sale of their motorcycles by the former governor as illegal, null and void.
In a suit filed on May 25, 2015, by their counsel, Barrister Adegoke Omoloja of Cosmic Chambers, Abuja, they asked the court should declare the seizure and subsequent sale of their motorcycles by the former governor as illegal, null and void.
They also asked for a compensation of N1m in favour of each them
and another N50m as general damages saying the seizure and sale of their
motorcycles had brought untold hardship and difficulties to their
families.
The 60-paragraph affidavit in support of the case deposed to by one Ndagi Mohammed said: “That
some of us bought the motorcycle through cooperatives (as can be seen
on purchase receipts attached) on loan which they still deduct from our
salaries monthly.”
June 29 has been fixed for the hearing of the case.
June 29 has been fixed for the hearing of the case.
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