The Federal High Court sitting in Jos, have threw out a 1.25 billion naira damages suit filed by imo state Governor Rochas Okorocha, against the ex- inspector-general of police, Ibrahim Idris, and the EFCC.
According to reports, Okorocha filed the suit against the IGP and EFCC in November 2018 for allegedly invading and ransacking his house in Jos.
Delivering judgment, Justice Musa Kurya dismissed Okorocha’s application for lacking in merit.
Reports say, Okorocha alleged that the igp and the anti-graft agency breached his fundamental human rights following the May 3, 2017 invasion.
But the IGP and the EFCC, through their counsel, Edwin Inegbenoise and Muktar Ali-ahmed, pleaded with the court to dismiss the governor’s application for lack of merit since a court warrant was obtained for the search on his residence in accordance with the law.
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