About 50 Niger state civil servants have dragged the immediate past governor of the state, Babangida Aliyu, before a Minna high court.
The civil servants are accusing Aliyu of unlawfully seizing their motorcycles and are demanding N100m as compensation for general damages, Punch reports.
Former Governor Aliyu Dragged To Court
According to the civil servants, the governor violated their fundamental human rights by seizing and selling their motorcycles.
In a suit filed on May 25, 2015, by their counsel, Barrister Adegoke Omoloja of Cosmic Chambers, Abuja, they asked the court should declare the seizure and subsequent sale of their motorcycles by the former governor as illegal, null and void.
They also asked for a compensation of N1m in favour of each them and another N50m as general damages saying the seizure and sale of their motorcycles had brought untold hardship and difficulties to their families.
The 60-paragraph affidavit in support of the case deposed to by one Ndagi Mohammed said: “That some of us bought the motorcycle through cooperatives (as can be seen on purchase receipts attached) on loan which they still deduct from our salaries monthly.”
June 29 has been fixed for the hearing of the case.
Recall that on the day of hand over, May 29, Aliyu, had been booed, stoned and insulted by some of the people in the crowd, who called him several derogatory names at the Bako Kontagora memorial stadium, where the ceremony was held.
The civil servants are accusing Aliyu of unlawfully seizing their motorcycles and are demanding N100m as compensation for general damages, Punch reports.
Former Governor Aliyu Dragged To Court
According to the civil servants, the governor violated their fundamental human rights by seizing and selling their motorcycles.
In a suit filed on May 25, 2015, by their counsel, Barrister Adegoke Omoloja of Cosmic Chambers, Abuja, they asked the court should declare the seizure and subsequent sale of their motorcycles by the former governor as illegal, null and void.
They also asked for a compensation of N1m in favour of each them and another N50m as general damages saying the seizure and sale of their motorcycles had brought untold hardship and difficulties to their families.
The 60-paragraph affidavit in support of the case deposed to by one Ndagi Mohammed said: “That some of us bought the motorcycle through cooperatives (as can be seen on purchase receipts attached) on loan which they still deduct from our salaries monthly.”
June 29 has been fixed for the hearing of the case.
Recall that on the day of hand over, May 29, Aliyu, had been booed, stoned and insulted by some of the people in the crowd, who called him several derogatory names at the Bako Kontagora memorial stadium, where the ceremony was held.
