Nigeria’s former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and Yinka Odumakin, the spokesman of Afenifere, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural organization have filed a ₦20 million suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The anti-graft agency had invited the duo for questioning over their social media posts that the Commission had allegedly raided the residence of the embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen.

In a suit filed at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, Fani-Kayode and Odumakin said the public declaration by the Commission to arrest them is an infringement on their fundamental rights.

The duo asked the court to issue an order restraining the Commission or any of its agents from harassing, arresting or detaining them. They also asked the EFCC to tender a public apology for infringing on their fundamental human rights.

The suit read: “A declaration that the respondent’s public declaration to arrest the applicants on the bases of spreading false rumours is an infringement of the Applicants rights and a breach of their Fundamental Rights enshrined in Section 34(a) 35(1) (4) and (5) of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria

“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the Respondents by themselves, agents, privies, or anybody deriving authority from them by whatever name called from harassing, intimidating, arresting, abducting or detaining the Applicants.

“An order compelling the Respondents to tender an unreserved public apology to the Applicants for the infringement of their fundamental rights and for describing them in demeaning manners.

“An order that the Respondents pay the sum of ₦20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million Naira) as damages for the unlawful threat to arrest the Applicants.”