The widow and children of one Olalekan Adisa, who was allegedly gruesomely murdered when the house of Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a. Igboho Oosa, was invaded at Soka, Sanyo Area, Ibadan, during the agitation for the Yoruba Nation, has filed a N254bn lawsuit.
An Ibadan-based lawyer, Yomi Alliyu (SAN), filed the suit on their behalf as special, aggravated, and/or exemplary damages against the Attorney General of the Federation and two others at the High Court of Oyo State sitting in Ibadan.
Other respondents in the case are the State Security Service and the State Director, State Security Service, Oyo State Command.
This is according to a press release obtained by our correspondent on Tuesday.
The applicants are Mrs Abiola Adisa (suing as the wife and next of kin of Mr Saheed Olalekan Adisa (deceased)), Khamis Adisa, Majid Adisa, and Edris Adisa (2nd, 3rd, and 4th applicants suing through their guardian and/or their best friend, Mrs Abiola Adisa).
The applicants in suit No M/368/2023 sued the respondents for the infringement of the deceased’s fundamental human rights.
Alliyu is asking the court for an order compelling the respondents jointly and severally to pay the applicants the sum of N4,753,800,000 as special damages for the upkeep of the applicant, the deceased’s mother, and those of their three children as hitherto performed by the deceased.
An order of court awarding the sum of N250bn as exemplary and/or aggravated damages for breaching the applicant’s husband and/or father Olalekan Adisa’s (deceased’s) fundamental rights by killing him in the course of an alleged illegal and/or unlawful invasion of Sunday Igboho’s residence between 1am and 3am on July 1, 2021.
An order compelling the respondents to release the corpse of Adisa (deceased) and that of Yekinni Abdulfatahi immediately to the applicant for a dignifying burial after a court-ordered autopsy in Adeoyo General Hospital, Ring Road, Ibadan, or any other government hospital as may be ordered by the court with pathologists of both parties in attendance and reports of the autopsy filed within seven days of conducting the same.
An order directing the respondents to tender a public apology in two national dailies, The PUNCH and the Nigerian Tribune, for breaching the fundamental human rights of the applicant’s deceased husband.
Alliyu stated in a press release that the estate was invaded on the alleged suspicion that Igboho planning to wage war against the Federal Republic of Nigeria in order to secure the creation of “Oodua Nation” from present Nigeria.
