Police challenge N5m judgment award to Ugolor at Supreme Court

THE Police have appealed to the Supreme Court the affirmation of the Court of Appeal in the N5 million judgment sum awarded to the Executive Director of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Rev. David Ugolor by a Benin High Court for his unlawful remand in police and prison custody for 41 days over alleged complicity in the May 6, 2012 murder of Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Olaitan Oyerinde.

A summons by police counsel, J. K. Gadzama (SAN), which copy was made available to journalists in Benin City Tuesday said the appellate court erred by ordering the payment of the said amount and that it also erred when it failed to accept that the appellant being a statutory government agency would pay the sum if the judgment is so given.

But the ANEEJ in a statement Tuesday said the police were trying to delay justice by heading to Supreme Court to challenge the Appeal Court ruling.


A statement signed by its Communications Officer, Kelly Umukoro said the police were wasting taxpayers’ money to pursue a case they would lose. “The police are wasting tax payers’ limited resources to pursue a case that the IGP and the Nigeria Police will lose because after more than nine months they have not been able to fault our Executive Director’s claim that he was dubiously framed to shield the real killers of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde.

“For us in ANEEJ, this is a case of David versus Goliath in the Nigeria Police. We do not have the kind of money in their control but we trust in our God and the word of God cannot return to him void. Our faith is in God we know he will deliver Goliath to us in the fullness of time,” he said.


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