Former beauty queen and a wife of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, Precious Chikwendu who lost closeness and affection with Kayode for over a year now have filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking the implementation of her fundamental human rights.
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In the court papers filed by her council Abdul-Aziz Jimoh, Precious wrote Fani-Kayode, Inspector-General of Police, his officers and defendants names and demands the sum of N800m as damages. Other people that was in the suit include the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Force CID, Commissioner of Police, FCT, CSP James Idachaba (OC Legal CID), FCT Command.
Precious stated in the papers that she was demanding that money because of the roles the persons have played in “humiliating” her during the pendency of her custody suit.
The mother of four asked the court to prevent the IGP, his officers and men from humiliating her in any form, pending the hearing and determination of her suit seeking the custody of the four children she had with Fani-Kayode.
Outside her demands in court, Precious asked court to grant a command enforcing her fundamental human rights as she was apprehensive of an imminent violation of such rights in the actualization of alleged threats to her life by Fani-Kayode and in the face of the nonchalant and refusal of the first, second and third respondents (IGP, DIG Force CID and CP FCT) to investigate her genuine petitions of threat to life against the fifth respondent (Fani-Kayode).
She sought for a declaration that she was not bound to honor the invitation of the first to fourth respondents in relation to a purported conspiracy and forgery of court records during the pendency of suit no CV/372/2021 between her and the fifth respondent.
In an affidavit in support of her court application, Precious stated that
“I was in a most tempestuous and violent relationship with the fifth respondent (Fani-Kayode), a qualified legal practitioner, a politician and a former minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The fifth respondent and I have four children together and I am forcefully separated from our children, who are all minors.
Consequent upon the unbridled violence perpetrated against me by the fifth respondent and the forceful separation from our children, I filed a suit in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with Suit No CV/372/2021.
Rather than allow the contending matters placed before the FCT High Court to be determined by the honorable court, the fifth respondent has persisted in using the Police officers under the control of the first respondent (IGP) and supervised by the second respondent (Commissioner of Police FCT) incessantly to intimidate and harass me with a view to interfering in the adjudicatory powers of a competent court of justice.”
Chikwendu said she had also petitioned the Commissioner of Police, FCT, the third respondent, alleging threats to her life by the fifth respondent and that the Police Commissioner had refused to act on her petition, thus prompting her to go to court to enforce her fundamental human rights.
