The NANS President requests the court to issue an order enforcing his rights, citing alleged violations by the named respondents.

Comrade Atiku Abubakar Isah, President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja to enforce his fundamental human rights.

The case, filed on May 14, 2025, and marked Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/966/2025, lists the Director of the Directorate of State Security (DSS), the Director of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), and Mr. Seyi Tinubu as the first and third respondents, respectively.

According to court documents, the application, filed by his legal counsel Ugwueze I. Oduegbu and R.O. Ifebhor of Ajunwa & Co., was brought pursuant to the provisions of the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 2009, Chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution (as amended in 2011), and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, 2004.

The NANS President requests the court to issue an order enforcing his rights, citing alleged violations by the named respondents. 

He alleged that his continued detention, media defamation, and alleged abuse by state actors were orchestrated to silence his voice and activism.

In the suit, Comrade Isah is demanding a total of Thirty-Two Billion, Eight Hundred and Seventy Million Naira (N32,870,000,000) as general damages for the alleged violation of his constitutional rights.

Among the reliefs sought, the applicant is asking the court to declare that “the Respondents’ blatant, kidnapping, adoption and unlawful detention of the Applicant for over 15 days and continuous detention without charging him to any court of competent jurisdiction amounts to total breach of the Applicant’s fundamental human rights to freedom of movement provided for in Chapter iv of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended in 2011”.

He is also seeking a declaration that his alleged brutal beating and stabbing with a knife, leading to severe blood loss, physical pain, and trauma, amount to inhuman and degrading treatment, in violation of Section 34 of the 1999 Constitution and Articles 5 and 16 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Culled Sahara Reporters