Two children of the late MKO Abiola, Kassim Abiola, and Aliyu Abiola, have filed a N100m fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Commissioner of Police over their arrest and detention by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad since September 2.
In the fundamental rights suit filed on their behalf by Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), Kassim and Aliyu alleged that they were arrested on the instigation of their stepmother, Mrs Adebisi Abiola, who allegedly suspected them to have had a hand in the recent robbery attack on MKO Abiola’s house in Ikeja, Lagos.
In an affidavit filed in support of the suit, a litigation clerk in Ozekhome’s law firm, Ubong Ikon, said Kassim and Aliyu were picked up at their father’s house, 42-46 MKO Abiola Crescent, Off Toyin Street, Ikeja, at about 11.45am on September 2 by fully armed SARS operatives, who forced their way into their apartments without any warrant of arrest.