Lawyers drag military to court over too many checkpoints in Southeast, demand N5bn damages

Legal practitioners, Aloy Ejimakor, Patrick Agazie and their associates have initiated a class action suit against the proliferation of military checkpoints in the Southeast.
The lawyers said the checkpoints have become oppressive and a menace to the people of the Southeast.
In the fundamental rights suit in which Chinedu Augustine Agbodike is the Applicant on behalf of the people of Southeast, the Chief of Army Staff, Nigerian Army, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Federal Government of Nigeria were listed as  the Respondents.
They demanded the sum of five billion naira as exemplary, aggravated and general damages for the widespread and continuing violation of the fun...