BY BABA AHMED, LAFIA – Four serving pastors with the Living Faith Church in Nasarawa State, have dragged the church before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court for unlawful detention over what they claimed they know nothing about.
The pastors are; Fred Yough serving in Sisinbaki in Wamba Local Government Area of Nasarawa State; Ibitoye Emmanuel also in Wamba; Barnabas Enbhe serving in Gwantu; and Tolani Salau, who is the Auditor in Nasarawa State. They are claiming 200 million Naira as damages and also demanding a public apology for wrongful accusation of conspiracy and theft.
The Pastors through Adamu Ahmed Ibrahim and co Chambers, said they were unlawfully accused and detained for six days for the offence they knew nothing about.
Counsel to the aggrieved pastors, Barrister Innocent Lagi, said his clients have filed a suit before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court for their unlawful detention and breach of their fundamental right.
Lagi said the detention of his clients for over six days without trial is an infringement on their right, stressing that his clients suffered psychological trauma as a result of the unlawful detention
The plaintiffs, led by Pastor Fred Yough of the Living Faith Church Sisinbaki in Wamba Local Government Area of Nasarawa state, said the church took them to police station for the offence they never committed and wrongfully accused them of conspiracy and theft.
Yough further stated that they spent over six days in detention which breached their fundamental human rights.
According to him; “We were invited to Goshen on the pretence that we had a meeting but to our surprise, we were taken to police station from the Cgranted hurch where we spent over six days before we were granted bail”.
However, when contacted over the issue, the State Pastor in Nasarawa, Muyiwa James said he is not aware of the case.
