2015 election assault: Comrade Ikhide defeats NSCDC in court

The Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, has awarded financial damages against the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and its officer, Chickson Iregbeghen.

Iregbeghen brutalized Comrade Erasmus Ikhide during the 2015 election at a polling unit in his hometown Eruere in Owan West Local Government Area.

His application of enforcement of fundamental human rights was argued by Benin-based lawyer and activist Douglas Ogbankwa Esq.

On Tuesday, Justice (Prof) A. Chuka Obiozor reprimanded the NSCDC and Iregbeghen for “arrogance of power and extreme barbarity”.

The judge berated them for “dehumanising and debasing” a law-abiding citizen by violating his human sanctity and trampling on his rights.

In 2015, Ikhide instituted the case against the security agency and Iregbeghen, whom the court declared “overstepped their bounds in attacking the applicant on election day”.

After the judgement, the activist said he was glad that justice was served “after 8 gruelling years of judicial stagnation and paralysis”.

The litigant described Obiozor as a judge “who knows his onions by looking at the case with the judicial imaginary scale of justice”.

“The point isn’t about financial reward, but to point out that the likes of Chickson Iregbeghen and Barrister Mabel Olifo do not deserve their jobs.”

Ikhide also recalled how Olifo and NSCDC Commandant in Edo assaulted him and his driver along Akpakpava road by 3rd junction in Benin, the capital.

He added that the victory reinforced his belief in the judicial system and that “vandals in security uniform would always have their days in the sun”.

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