A former Special Assistant to the President in the Office of the First Lady, Zainab Kassim, has sued her former principal for allegedly superintending and partaking in her assault and detention over Instagram post.
Zainab until February 11, 2022, when she was sacked was Aisha’s aide on Domestic and Social Event.
She claimed to have been sacked for multiple reasons, including her quest for pregnancy, mistaken belief that was close to a state first lady and allegedly removing a post from the first lady’s Instagram handle, in an interview she granted FJI, where she also said Mrs Buhari punched her in the stomach and was beating mercilessly by her security details, both around midnight on November 18, 2022.
She told the publication further that at the instance of the first lady, he was arrested and detained at Asokoro Police Station and had earlier was guest of the Department of State Services, adding that the Inspector General of Police threatened her not to make any fuss about the matter at the point of her release.
But the mother of one is not letting the matter slide, she has approached the court, seeking enforcement of her fundamental human rights against Mrs Buhari, and demanding N100m as damages from her and other respondents including the Inspector General of Police and the DSS.
The suit with the number, FHC/ABJ/05/2021 partly read: “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 Court is unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, null, void and constitutes a violation of her rights to personal liberty and freedom of movement.
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.”
She also asked the court to restrain the police and DSS from further arresting, detaining and torturing her.
“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 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 by 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.”
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