Court awards N100m fine against IGP for unlawful arrest, killing of Free Zakzaky protester

….Orders IGP, CMD of Asokoro District Hospital to release his corpse for Islamic burial rites A Federal High Court, Abuja, has awarded a N100 million fine against the Inspector-General of Police over an allegation bordering on the arrest and killing of Ja’afar Muhammad, a member of Free Zakzaky protesters in Abuja. Justice Zainab Abubakar, in a judgement on a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CD/409/2020, held that the arrest of late Muhammad by the police officers at Gwagwalada Teaching Hospital on July 22, 2019, and his killing on July 24, 2019, at SARS…

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