An Abuja High Court sitting in Gudu, has held that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) lacked the powers to prevent or stop rallies or possessions being held in respect of the abducted 270 students of the Federal Government College, Chibok, Borno State.
Justice Abubakar Talba, in a judgment Wednesday, declared that the Public Order Act, Cap 382 Laws of Nigeria 1990, which the Police purportedly relied on, “does not authorise men of the NPF to disrupt rallies or possession on the issue of the abducted Chibok girls.”
The judgment was on a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by rights activist and former House of Representatives member, Dino Melaye, challenging the disruption on May 9 this year, of the rally he led in Abuja in relation to the girls abducted by Boko Haram.
