The controversial lawyer said this after he was released by the Police following his arrest in the premises of the Federal High Court Ikoyi.
Olukoya Ogungbeje, the controversial lawyer who represented notorious kidnap Kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, has said he was not arrested by the Police but kidnapped by five armed men.
The controversial lawyer said this after he was released by the Police following his arrest in the premises of the Federal High Court Ikoyi.
Ogungbeje was rounded up and taken away by operatives from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, as he tried to park his car on Wednesday morning.
It was gathered that the lawyer was in court on Wednesday to get a final order that would enable him claim a sum of N400m damages, which the court awarded against the Nigeria Police Force in favour of one Mr Ibrahim Kabiru, whose brother was alleged to have been a victim of extra-judicial killing by the Police.
Ogungbeje had also filed a new suit against the police demanding fresh N100m damages for the alleged “forceful seizure, abduction, arrest, beating, torture and detention of the 1st applicant (Kabiru) by five armed policemen from the SCID, Panti, Yaba.”
The lawyer claimed that policemen swooped on his client, Kabiru, when he came for his case before Justice Hassan at the Federal High Court in Lagos on September 6.
According to him, Kabiru was bundled into a Sienna Space vehicle.
Ogungbeje, in the suit, argued that the police violated the fundamental rights of his client under sections 33, 34, 35, 36 and 41 of the 1999 Constitution.
The lawyer joined himself as the second plaintiff in the suit, which has as defendants, the Inspector General of Police, the Nigeria Police Force, the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, DCP Yetunde Longe, CSP Effiong Asuquo and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Wole Smith.
The lawyer and his client are praying the court to make an order, “compelling the respondents to severally and jointly tender written public apology in three widely-read national daily newspapers and pay a sum of N100m as general and exemplary damages for the forceful seizure, abduction, detention, threat to life and rights, harrassment and inconvenience of the applicants without cause or any court order.”