The
controversy trailing ongoing investigation into the 2015 N450m PDP Campaign
fund to Enugu State has assumed a new dimension, as the 2015 Secretary of the
Campaign organisation, Mrs. Rita Mbah has dragged the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) to court, demanding N500m for violation of her
fundamental human rights.
She also
asked for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the anti-graft agency
from further threatening or breaching her fundamental rights.
In an
application filed before the Federal High Court, Enugu, by chief Mike A.A.
Ozekhome (SAN), Mbah prayed the court for an order enforcing her fundamental
rights to personal liberty, dignity of person and right to acquire moveable
property.
Mbah,
currently Enugu State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, stated in the
affidavit that she was arrested on October 13, 2016, in Enugu State by
operatives of the respondent, on account of an investigation into PDP campaign
fund.
She was
detained for over 48 hours at the EFCC office Enugu, after searches were
conducted at her home, with several of her documents carted away.
She further
averred that she has been ordered to make frequent and periodic visits by way
of report to the EFCC office since she was granted bail, a condition she has
always complied with, notwithstanding the fact that she had written a petition
clearly detailing how the said fund was disbursed by the then Governor Sullivan
Chime.
She urged
the court to declare that her arrest without warrant and subsequent
dehumanisation, among others, as illegal, unlawful, wrongful and constitutes a
blatant violation of her fundamental rights.
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