By Onozure Dania

Lagos—Justice Abdulazeez Anka of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned to March 16 hearing on a suit filed by Lagos State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, against the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Mohammed Ndalati and eight others, over alleged assault on one of its members, Otunba Yomi Olomofe.

Olomofe

When the matter came up before the court yesterday, the judge told the applicant to effect service of the motion papers to all the respondents and adjourned the case till March for hearing.

NUJ had filed the suit against NCS over the assault of Olomofe at Seme border post of NCS last year, asking for N500 million as special and exemplary damages for the violation of the applicant’s rights.

The applicant is seeking reliefs from the court on the grounds of the vicious beating, the bodily and internal injuries inflicted on him.

The applicant wants the court to declare that such an act could have resulted to the loss of his life and were capable of breaching his right to life.

He supported his motion with a 28-paragraph-affidavit and a written address. Olomofe, who is the Editorial chairman of a local news magazine in Badagry, Lagos, instituted the suit through his counsel, Mr. Jiti Ogunye.