An Ijaw youth activist, Comrade Collins Opumie, has sued Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and Department of State Services (DSS) at Bayelsa State High Court in Yenagoa, over his alleged illegal arrest and detention in an underground cell in Abuja for 730 days.
Opumie demanded N9billion damages for alleged injustice meted out to him by Agip and DSS.
He prayed the court to declare that his arrest, torture and subsequent detention without proper food and medical attention and access to family members for two years were gross violation of his rights to dignity as a person.
In his eight prayers before the court, Opumie sought the order of the court against the defendants, jointly and severally “for damages suffered as a result of the false imprisonment for two years under the custody of the DSS (2nd defendant) in their prison facilities without bail or arraignment in a court of law, at the instance of Agip (1st defendant), false and malicious complaints/reports against him.
Hearing on the matter has been fixed for March 15.