Human rights lawyer and activist, Inibehe Effiong, on Thursday demanded that the Nigerian Police Force pay N100 million as compensation to a minor, Alabi Quadri, who was arrested and detained.
DAILY POST reports that Quadri is a 17-year-old minor who went viral ahead of the 2023 general elections for standing in front of the convoy of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The minor is said to have spent months in Kirikiri prison after being arrested for armed robbery, an offence his family said he did not commit.
Magistrate Adetola Olorunfemi on Thursday following the legal advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, Babajide Martins.
Speaking to newsmen after the judgment in the Apapa area of Lagos, Effiong commended the DPP for standing by the truth in the matter.
He also demanded that the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, and the Inspector General of Police, should as a matter of urgency, remove the Divisional Police Officer of Amukoko Divisional Headquarters and subject him to orderly room trial along with the IPO, one Inspector Odigbe Samuel, and other officers who participated in what he called the evil, sinister, oppressive, and corrupt scheme of framing-up a teenager for armed robbery at the behest of rogue ‘Area Boys'.
The human rights lawyer also demanded public apology from the police authorities for his client.
Inibehe said if the above three remedial demands are not fully complied with immediately, he and the team of lawyers will initiate legal actions to seek redress.
According to him, Quadri’s case is a painful example of the putrefying corruption, monstrous impunity, and pervasive injustice in the Nigeria Police Force.
“There are many Quadris languishing in detention centres across Nigeria because of the unbridled criminality, lawlessness, and lack of accountability in the Police institution and the weakness of the justice system. History will vindicate the just,” Inibehe said.
