Court awards N100m against police over killing of 22-year-old young man in Delta 

​A Federal High Court sitting successful Calabar, on Thursday, July 9, awarded N100 cardinal successful damages against the Nigeria Police Force and different respondents implicit the unfortunate sidesplitting of 22-year-old Onyekachi Mba successful Delta Government House.

DAILY POST reports that Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu delivered the judgement successful a cardinal rights enforcement suit filed by the deceased’s mother, Mrs Victoria Mba, done her lawyer, Chief Roland Ndubuka.

The suit, instituted connected October 10, 2025, sought the enforcement of Mba’s cardinal rights nether Sections 35, 36, 37, and 41 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), including his rights to idiosyncratic liberty, dignity of the quality person, and state of movement.

Mrs Mba had asked the tribunal to find whether the torture, inhuman treatment, and eventual sidesplitting of her lad amounted to a usurpation of his law rights and requested due compensation.

In her ruling, Justice Ojukwu held that the assault, torture, and fatal shooting of Mba by a constabulary serviceman attached to the residence of Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, connected August 1,...