{"id":109655,"date":"2023-12-12T17:46:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=109655"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:46:29","slug":"court-restrains-dss-police-from-arresting-sdp-kogi-spokesman-faruk-adejoh-audu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/court-restrains-dss-police-from-arresting-sdp-kogi-spokesman-faruk-adejoh-audu\/","title":{"rendered":"Court restrains DSS, police from arresting SDP Kogi spokesman, Faruk Adejoh-Audu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the Commissioner of Police in Kogi, Bethrand Unuoha, from arresting the spokesperson of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the state Mr Faruk Adejoh-Audu.<\/p>\n<p>Also restrained are the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS) and the Director of DSS in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The restraining order against the security agents is to last until the final determination of a motion on notice for the enforcement of fundamental human rights brought by Adejoh-Audu who claimed his life has come under serious threat from the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>Adejoh-Audu, a journalist, activist, politician and SDP spokesperson went to court over altercations between him and the Kogi police commissioner on election matters after which the later publicly threatened the spokesman to expect consequences.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nOn November 29, the SDP spokesperson accused the police chief of collaborating with thugs to attack the interest of his party in the recent governorship election in Kogi.<\/p>\n<p>However, the police commissioner held a press conference the next day in Lokoja and gave Adejoh-Audu a 24-hour ultimatum to substantiate his allegations or \u201cbe ready to face the consequences of his actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adejoh-Audu, in a 17-paragraph reply, justified his allegations and accused the police chief of resorting to self-help by threatening to \u201cvisit unstated consequences\u201d on him.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Hamza Muazu after listening to O. Salifu, counsel to Adejoh-Audu, in an ex-parte application, granted the order restraining order.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Muazu then adjourned adjourned the matter until December 18 for hearing of the motion on notice.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the Commissioner of Police in Kogi, Bethrand Unuoha, from arresting the spokesperson of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the state Mr&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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