Court dismisses N200m rights suit against police in Bauchi

The Federal High Court sitting successful Bauchi has dismissed a N200 cardinal cardinal rights enforcement suit filed against the Nigeria Police Force, the Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police, Bauchi State Command.

The suit, marked FHC/BAU/CS/94/2025, was instituted by Dr Aliyu Sulaiman Wunti against Alhaji Abdulaziz Tijjani and 5 others.

The spokesperson of the Bauchi State Police Command, SP Nafiu Habib, disclosed this successful a connection issued connected Friday, saying the judgement was delivered connected July 24, 2026, by the Bauchi Judicial Division of the Federal High Court aft 11 tribunal sittings.

According to Habib, the applicant sought declarations that his cardinal rights to just proceeding and spot had been violated, arsenic good arsenic perpetual injunctions against the respondents.

He besides claimed N200 cardinal successful damages, comprising N50 cardinal arsenic compensation for the alleged demolition of his property, N100 cardinal arsenic wide damages and N50 cardinal arsenic the outgo of the action.

Habib said the command’s ineligible squad defended the substance connected behalf of the Nigeria Police Force and the Bauchi State Police Command.

The tribunal held that the applicant failed to found immoderate breach of his cardinal rights by the respondents and consequently dismissed the suit successful its entir...