Lawyers drag military to court over too many checkpoints in Southeast, demand N5bn damages

Legal practitioners, Aloy Ejimakor, Patrick Agazie and their associates person initiated a people enactment suit against the proliferation of subject checkpoints successful the Southeast.

The lawyers said the checkpoints person go oppressive and a menace to the radical of the Southeast.

In the cardinal rights suit successful which Chinedu Augustine Agbodike is the Applicant connected behalf of the radical of Southeast, the Chief of Army Staff, Nigerian Army, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Federal Government of Nigeria were listed as  the Respondents.

They demanded the sum of 5 cardinal naira arsenic exemplary, aggravated and wide damages for the wide and continuing usurpation of the cardinal rights of citizens of the South-East portion of Nigeria.

The suit, which was filed astatine the High Court of Enugu State connected 17th June 2026, specifically sought the pursuing declarations and orders.

The orders read: “A declaration that the indiscriminate deployment, establishment, cognition and attraction of subject checkpoints and roadblocks by the Respondents crossed Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo and Abia States, which person resulted successful harassment, extortion, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention, torture, degrading treatment, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of citizens, const...