ITRealms:
The sacked Director-General
of National TaskForce to Combat Illegal Importation of Small Arms,
Ammunition and Light Weapons, Chief Emmanuel Osita Okereke, has dragged Importers
Association of Nigeria (IMAN) to an Abuja High Court, saying that his sack was
illegal and claiming damages worth N200m, reports ITRealms.
The plaintiff, Okereke, in the suit
filed by his lawyer, Mr. Chibuzor Ezike, demanded a N200 million damage from
the Registered Trustees of IMAN before a High Court in the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja, and insisting that his removal as National President
of Importers Association of Nigeria (IMAN) was illegal.
Although , no date has been fixed
for its hearing, Okereke said that his purported removal as National President
of IMAN violated Article 12, 18 and 21 of the constitution of the
association.
A copy of the suit obtained by correspondent
on Wednesday in Abuja, showed that joined as 2nd - 6th defendants were Chief
Gilbert Bravo Obi, Chief Obong Patrick Udoh, Alhaji Dr. Bature Abdulaziz,
Alhaji Aliyu Ahmed Yar'Adua and Hon. Kingsley Chikezie.
Okereke, a former Presidential
candidate of African Liberation Party, also asked the court to declare
that the Board of Trustees of IMAN "has no power whatsoever to remove
and/or sack any national officer of the association vis-a-vis the power given
to it under Article 12 of the constitution of the association."
For Okereke, his purported removal
as IMAN President and D-G of NATFORCE in the association over alleged criminal
offence without giving him any opportunity to be heard amounted to a breach of
his fundamental human rights as enshrined in constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and African Charter on Human and Peoples
Right 2004 is null, void and unconstitutional.
The plaintiff also wants an order
restraining the respondents to retract the publications with an apology through
same newspapers.
Further, Okereke demanded an order
of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents from further attempts to
remove or sack him by any other means not permitted by the constitution of IMAN
and laws of Nigeria.
Isaac Oyimah with correspondent report/GEE
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