An employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria named Sa’adatu Yaro filed a lawsuit against the Department of State Services, but the Federal Capital Territory High Court dismissed it on Friday.
The lawsuit demanded bail to avoid further arrest as well as an order freeing her six exotic cars that were confiscated by the secret police on July 12.
Yaro is the second defendant in the federal government’s N6.9 billion procurement fraud prosecution brought against suspended CBN governor Godwin Emefile.
The trial on the case didn’t start on Thursday due to Yaro’s absence.
However, in a motion on notice marked FCT/HC/CV/6918/23 Yaro asked the court to rule that her arrest on July 12, 2023, her husband’s detention, and the confiscation of her six exotic cars were violations of her basic human rights through the representation of J.B. Daudu SAN.
Daudu added that the DSS lacked jurisdiction and legal authority to look into the applicant’s business operations because it was not an anti-graft agency.
He claimed that the applicant’s right to personal liberty and right to human dignity, as protected by Sections 34 and 35 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, had been violated by the DSS’s ongoing detention and torture of the applicant since the 12th day of July 2023.
