A federal high, sitting court in Lagos has ordered the state security service (SSS) to unseal the data center of the opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC), as soon as possible.
www.vicnuel.blogspot.com recalled that last week, operatives of the Nigerian secret police stormed the APC data center, located at Allen Avenue in Lagos, south-west Nigeria, allegedly arrested some workers and seized documents and computer hard drives.
However, Justice Mohammed Yunusa on Wednesday granted an interim order restraining SSS from further shutting party’s data office. Yunusa also said the secret police should not take any to temper with the property of the opposition party, pending the determination of the substantive suit.
In their application, the detained APC staff said they were only carrying out their legitimate duties of inputting data from the APC’s physical membership form into a digital database.
In its assertion, the party said the action of the SSS in forcefully entering its data centre and vandalizing its physical and digital assets was a violation of its right to property.
The APC also stated that the “brazen conduct” of the SSS and the Nigerian Police not only sought to intimidate the party’s staff and members, but also compromised the confidential information of millions of Nigerians who volunteered their personal information in accepting the party’s membership.
The judge granted leave to the applicants to serve court processes to the respondents – the Nigerian police and the SSS – by substituted service, at their Lagos offices.
The Justice ordered the respondents to produce the detained applicants- Chinedu Atuche, Fayemi Olaposi, Chika Augustine Onuchukwu, Ebun Ilori, and Esther Enemuwe in court at the next adjourned date, as hearing on the matter was adjourned till November 28, this year.
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