President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, have been dragged to the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, by Emmanuel Ekpenyong Esq, an Abuja-based human rights and constitutional lawyer.
The legal practitioner in the suit asked the appellate court to determine the extent of his fundamental right to life guaranteed under Section 33 of the 1999 constitution amidst alleged increasing cases of extra-judicial killings in the country.
Ekpenyong filed the appeal after a Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Nkeonye Maha, dismissed his fundamental enforcement rights suit for lack of locus standi (legal right) to institute the matter.
The lawyer had alleged that the increased and wanton loss of lives in Nigeria in recent times has put him in reasonable apprehension that his right to life, which the defendants in the suit were mandated to protect under Chapter VI of the constitution, was likely to be contravened.
He had sued the president of Nigeria and the AGF and Minister of Justice as 1st and 2nd defendants in the matter.
In his originating summons dated and filed on July 10, 2020, the plaintiff submitted six questions for determination.