By Our Correspondent
A Benin base legal practitioner and human right activist , Obakpor Emmanuel Esq, has again raised alarm over constant brutality of innocents citizens at Lady warm-up Bar situated at okhoro road , ogharefe,Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State.
The legal luminary who sometimes in September, 2015 filed a suit at the Fedral High Court , warri over a complaint by some soldiers led by one captain Ezekiel Wakili attached to pan ocean Nigeria limited, an oil company carrying oil exploration at Oghara, as the soldier at that time went to the said bar, and beat up, and battered persons who went there to cool themselves on a weekend by the said soldiers led by the same captain Ezekiel Wakili who was alleged promised the owner of the bar that they shall ensure that they close down the bar, as they same soldier instructed their victims to stop patronizing the said bar instead they should patronize a sister bar along okhoro road, ogharefe.
The lawyer told reporters that on the 6th day of December,2015 that another set of soldiers stormed the bar on a Hilux vehicle with an inscription on its side DT JUL 023 and started beating the customers and assaulted, battered them and violated their rights to freedom of movement and peaceful assembly, the lawyer said his client called him at about 8pm on the said day when the soldiers stormed the bar.
The lawyer explained further that the soldiers according to his client did not find anything incriminating as the bar is duly registered with the corporate affairs commission (CAC), explaining that the soldiers destroyed properties worth millions of naira and some of the properties like drink, chairs, money etc where made away by the soldiers , the lawyer is calling on the president muhammadu buhari the chief of army staff, the inspector general of police and the national security adviser to intervene. The lawyer appeals to the president,President Muhammadu Buhari, the chief of staff to call those soldiers to order.
The lawyer as at press time was on his way to the high court at Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area to file a motion on notice for injunction with an accompanied writ of summons.
The lawyer said he wondered why soldiers engaged themselves in a civil matter like this one , when the police is there to carry out their constitutional function, there by the soldiers have shown that they are bent on satisfying those who engage them, according to the lawyer investigation has it that the soldiers are on a mission pointing at that he the lawyer will pursue the matter to a logical conclusion in court
