The Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Abuja has dismissed an software searching for an order of interim injunction restraining Nigerian protesters underneath totally different platforms from persevering with with the continued protests utilizing the hashtags #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria.
Messrs Danladi Goje, Buky Abayomi, Adiza Abbo, and 13 different Nigerians had on August 12, 2024 filed the movement ex-parte searching for the enforcement of their basic rights towards the organisations concerned with the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests.
The candidates had filed the movement towards organisations comparable to: Take It Again Motion, Involved Nigerians, Nigerians In opposition to Starvation, Initiative For Change, Human Rights Co-advocacy Initiative, Nigerian In opposition to Corruption Initiative, Residents For Change Advocacy Initiative, and Well timed Intervention as 1st to eighth respondents.
Others sued have been Lively Residents Group, College students For Change, We Coalition, Whole Intervention, Refurbished Nigeria, Tomorrow In the present day, Our Future In Our Palms Initiative, Youths In opposition to Tyranny, Save Nigeria Motion, Omoyele Sowore, and Social Democratic Get together (SDP) because the ninth to nineteenth respondents.
The remainder are the Lawyer Common of the Federation and safety companies.
The candidates’ lawyer, Tsembelee Sorkaa, acknowledged in his course of, that the precise to life, private liberty, personal and household life, motion, property, and financial growth of his shoppers have been more likely to be breached by the continued protest in Nigeria organised by the first to nineteenth respondents who’re utilizing the hashtag #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria.
In his movement on discover, the place he sought an injunction towards the respondents, the lawyer argued that “the earlier protests in Nigeria in 2020, hashtag #EndSARS, led to the deaths of harmless Nigerians and big lootings and destructions of properties in Nigeria. This was broadly reported within the media.”
Justice Lifu who dominated over the case stated that the protest in query ended final week and there’s no proof introduced earlier than the courtroom by the lawyer that the protesters would reconvene later.
“I’ve fastidiously thought-about the prayers within the immediate movement (ex parte). In my opinion, the movement will not be grantable.
“The prayers for substituted service should not grantable. The whole software lacks benefit and is accordingly dismissed,” the choose dominated.
The courtroom subsequently adjourned the listening to on the movement on discover to August 29, 2024.
