Prof. Zainab Abiola, widow of late politician, Chief MKO Abiola, has slammed a N100 billion suit against the Nigeria Police Force for alleged defamation of character.
Joined as respondents in the suit filed at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, are Ibrahim Alkali (son of the Inspector General of Police) and former police orderly, Teju Moses.
Abiola in the suit with reference No FHA/ABJ/CS/2370/202 filed by her lawyer, Tawo Tawo (SAN), is challenging the police for violating her fundamental human rights to life, and dignity of the human person.
The plaintiff in her statement of claim obtained by journalists on Sunday, averred that she was framed on September 20, 2022, by one Ibrahim Alkali, the adopted son of the IGP, that she inflicted injury on her former orderly, Inspector Moses, a development she said has caused so much damage to her name and reputation.
She said that as a Chief Legal Consultant of the force, Alkali’s son had sometime in 2021 requested for a bribe of N20 million from her under the guise of greasing the palms of top officers to expand her office.
She said, her refusal to offer the N20 million bribe infuriated Ibrahim and he had been nursing evil plans and grudges against her adding that Ibrahim in his desperate bid to achieve his plans insisted that Moses remained her orderly even after she was declared unfit and withdrawn by the IGP.
“He conspired with my ex -orderly to lie that I inflicted bodily harm on her. We have CCTV camera’s around that will reveal what happened when the proceedings commenced,” she said.
The plaintiff, therefore, asked the court to order the defendants to pay her the sum of N100 billion as damages.
She said the amount was for defamation, shame, ridicule, harassment, trauma, humiliation and public embarrassment allegedly meted out to her by the Police.
She also asked the court for an order directing the defendants to tender an unreserved public apology in all print and electronic media.