Former Aide Sues First Lady Aisha Buhari Over Illegal Detention

Former aide Zainab Kassim has filed a N100 million lawsuit against First Lady Aisha Buhari for alleged illegal detention and abuse.

The former Special Assistant to the President in the First Lady’s Office filed a lawsuit against Aisha Buhari to enforce her fundamental rights because she claimed that some Department of State Service officers had abducted her and taken her to the Presidential Villa where they severely assaulted, dehumanized, and abused her.

The Inspector-General of Police and the Department of State Services are additional respondents in the action.

Kassim said that the assault was carried out with the assistance of DSS and police officials as retaliation for her deletion of social media posts.

She requested that the court declare her arrest and imprisonment to be unlawful in the lawsuit with case number FHC/ABJ/OS/202/2023, which our correspondent was able to get on Friday.

She is requesting, among other things, a “Declaration that the abduction, arrest and detention of the applicant between 18th of November, 2022 and 22nd of November, 2022, and the threat to further arrest and detain the applicant by agents of the 2nd and 3rd respondents on the orders and directives of the 1st respondent, without an order of the court is unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, null, void and constitutes a violation of her rights to personal liberty and freedom of movement.

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“A declaration that the torture, brutalisation and dehumanisation of the applicant by the 1st respondent and agents of the 2nd and 3rd respondents, on 18th of November, 2022 is unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal and constitutes a violation of her right to dignity of the human person.

“A declaration that the threats by the agents of the 2nd and 3rd respondents to the applicant, of further abduction, arrest, detention and assassination of the applicant if she brings any claims for fundamental rights enforcement against the respondents is unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, constitutes torture and a violation of her rights to life, fair hearing and dignity of the human person.

“An order restraining the respondents either by themselves or their agents or subordinates from further abducting, arresting, detaining, torturing or threatening to abduct, arrest, detain or assassinate the applicant or otherwise violating the fundamental rights of the Applicant.

“An order directing the 2nd respondent to release the applicant’s Note 20 Ultra mobile phone to her immediately. Damages, jointly and severally against the respondents, in the sum of N100,000,000.00.”

The case has not yet been assigned to a judge.