Nigerian man loses $100m suit against United Airlines for being deported

A Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out a suit filed by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), to challenge the alleged unlawful deportation and inhuman treatment of Jacob Ajomale, by immigration officials of the United States of America in 2010. In addition to the Attorney General of the Federation sued as the third respondent, Falana also sued United Airlines and the Ministry of Internal Affairs from which he sought compensation for Ajomale in the sums of $100m and N100m.

Ajomale claimed to have been unlawfully arrested, detained and deported in handcuffs from the US to Nigeria aboard a United Airlines air craft in 2010 despite having become a permanent resident in the US in February 2008 and having no criminal records.

He claimed to be carrying in his body, since 2010, a tracking device, in form of a micro chip, allegedly inserted into his body, through his anus, by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement prior to his deportation. He claimed to have been put onboard the United Airlines aircraft without his travelling papers.

‘Mr. President, you are wrong on the regulation of domiciliary accounts in Nigeria’ - PDP

Press statement from the PDP below...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wishes to bring to the notice of President Buhari that the apparent absence of an economic team in the third month of his administration is leading the country into economic quagmire and doldrums. In the past, we had given examples of the devastating effect of lack of an economic team and a clear-cut fiscal policy by this administration as evidenced in the lull and painful decline in the stock market, spiral rate of inflation, the disastrous outing of the government team in bilateral talks during the recent visit to the United States of America and the shambolic state of our economy at present.

This confusion has been extended to operations and regulations of the foreign exchange transactions in Nigeria wherein the government is making it impossible for honest Nigerians to engage in free trade and regulate their personal activities as guaranteed by the constitution, and this is clearly an agenda to illegally impose a communist economic regime on Nigerians.