Nyanya bombing suspect sues FG to court for N100 million damages

‎The alleged mastermind of the April 14 bomb blast that killed over 75 persons and wounded 100 others at a crowded motor park in Nyanya Abuja, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, Thursday, prayed the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the Federal Government to pay him the sum of N100million as damages,
 
Ogwuche insisted that his continued detention in the custody of the Department of State Security, DSS, amounted to ‎a gross abuse of his fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

He contended that ‎the Federal Government, having breached his constitutional rights, ought to be compelled by the court to pay damages to him.
 
Besides, he prayed the court to order his immediate release from detention pending whenever the government is ready to conduct his trial.

 The Department of State Security Service friday moved to restore government’s battered image in efforts to prosecute Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, the suspected masterminded of the Nyanyan Motor Park bomb blast by informing a Federal High Court in Abuja that the office of the Attorney General of the Federation was almost set to commence prosecution of the suspect.

The court had last week struck out a two- count charge which the police filed against Ogwuche for lack of diligent prosecution.
But the DSS told the court that it had concluded investigation into the allegation that Ogwuche masterminded the bomb blast in Nyanyan Motor Park which resulted in the death of about 75 people and hundred others wounded and that the case file had been forwarded to the Attorney General of the Federation for prosecution.

Counsel to the security organisation, Mr. Cliff Osagie disclosed this before Justice Adeniyi Ademola .
Osagie was responding to a suit filed by Ogwuche for an order of court releasing him having been held beyond the limit of days allowed by the constitution to hold a suspect.