Detention: PDP Chieftains Want N2bn As Damages

The Yobe State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abbagana Tata and a Senatorial candidate of the party in the 2011 senatorial election, Hassan Kafayos have jointly dragged the Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) before an Abuja High Court claiming N2 billion as damages for alleged inhuman treatment and unlawful detention for four days.

The two chieftains of the Yobe state chapter of the PDP, in a motion on notice, want the court to compel Dr. Ngama and the IGP to unequivocally and publicly apologise to them.