Afrigather Leader of the proscribed Islamic Stream in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and wife, Zeenah, objected to the demand by the Nigeria Immigration Carrier to affix the Express Safety Carrier and the Nationwide Intelligence Agency in a swimsuit.
El-Zakzaky and wife expressed their objection after counsel to the NIS, Jimoh Adamu, served on the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Funmi Falana, a motion to affix the SSS and NIA in the swimsuit which came up on Tuesday sooner than Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal Excessive Court, Abuja.
Mr Adamu, who filed the motion earlier in the morning, had talked about that joining the parties would also abet the court in its determination and for the sake of lovely listening to.
Nonetheless, Mrs Falana objected to the motion for joinder on the ground that the reason for filing the swimsuit, she argued, had nothing to form with the SSS or NIA.
She argued that since the Immigration Carrier used to be statutorily empowered to jam crawl documents, the SSS and NIA had nothing to form with the candidates’ claims.
In line along with her, the plaintiffs beget approached the court to leer an converse declaring that the violation of their beautiful to freedom of motion in the denial of the issuance of passports to them to enable them leer medical care in a single other country is unconstitutional.
She talked about her customers had applied to leer an enforcement of their classic rights as enshrined in the constitution.
Justice Egwuatu then adjourned the topic till February 14 for the argument to be taken, declaring that this grew to change into most valuable on the ground that the motion had not been studied by the court and more time would be wanted to battle by it.
El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zennah, had in a single other N4 billion suits sooner than Justice Inyang Ekwo of a sister court, sued the SSS and the Legal professional-Overall of the Federation sooner than the court over allegation bordering on their passports seizure.
In the intervening time, the couple sued the NIS sooner than Justice Egwuatu over the refusal to liberate their international passports.
The duo, who listed the NIS and its Comptroller Overall as 1st and 2nd defendants, prayed the court to place into effect their classic beautiful.
In a swimsuit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/22/2022 and filed by their lawyer, Femi Falana, on January 11, 2022, El-Zakzaky and wife talked about they’d the beautiful to freedom of motion as assured by the Nigerian constitution and the African Structure of Human and Peoples Factual.
They prayed the court to reveal that the refusal of the NIS to course of their crawl documents to enable them crawl in a single other country is illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.
(NAN)
