Bizman Drags NDLEA Over N22bn Tramadol Claim
Ukatu Afamefuna Mallinson, a business Mogul, has filed a fundamental rights suit against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), asking the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to release him “forthwith” and “unconditionally” or upon such terms as the court may deem fit. INDEPENDENT reports.
Ukatu is the Managing Director of Mallinson & Partners Limited, whom the NDLEA claimed imported two containers containing 1,284 cartons of Tramadol worth N22 billion in 2019 and also alleged that he was behind a N3 billion shipment of Tramadol linked to Police chief, Abba Kyari. Information Guide Nigeria
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While protesting his innocence, he also averred that the NDLEA not only failed to arraign him in court, despite being held in the Federal High Court within 40 kilometres, but had also failed to grant him administrative bail since his arrest on April 13, 2022. jamb results
He prayed the court to declare that his arrest by the NDLEA on April 13 at the Murtala Muhammed Local Airport Terminal, Ikeja, Lagos, and continued detention in its cell at the NDLEA office at NAHCO Compound, International Airport Road, was “without reasonable cause or upon reasonable suspicion” of a crime,” and violates his fundamental rights.
He further prayed for an order of perpetual Injunction restraining the NDLEA from “re-arresting, further re-detaining, further re-incarcerating” him contrary to his fundamental rights to liberty and freedom as enshrined in Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), among other laws.
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