COURT RESTRAINS POLICE, DSS FROM ARRESTING SDP SPOKESMAN

A Federal Capital High Court has restrained the Kogi State Commissioner of Police,Mr Bethrand Unuoha from arresting, harassing or in anyway intimidating the Spokesman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Faruk Adejoh-Audu.

Also restrained in the order issued by the FCT court are the Inspector General of Police, the Director-General of the Department of State Security(DSS) and the Kogi State Director of DSS.

The order is pending the determination of a motion on notice in an action for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights brought by Mr Adejoh-Audu who claimed his life had come under threat from the defendants.

Adejoh-Audu, a veteran journalist, activist, politician and SDP spokesman had gone to court after altercations between him and the Kogi Police Commissioner, Mr Unuoha on election matters penultimate week after which the later publicly threatened the spokesman to expect some unstated consequence .