Malcolm Omirhobo, a human rights attorney, has sued the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret. ), and the Inspector–General of Police, Usman Baba, for refusing to issue him a licence to own assault guns for self-defense.Informaion Guide Nigeria
He requested the right to possess assault rifles on the grounds that the federal government had violated its constitutional duty to safeguard life.
The attorney asked the court to interpret pertinent sections of the Firearms Act, Criminal Code Act, and other pertinent laws to determine whether it is lawful, legal, and constitutional for the second defendant (President) to refuse, fail, or neglect to grant him a licence to possess an assault rifle for the protection of his life and family.
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The plaintiff was seeking “A declaration that he and other Nigerian citizens have the right to defend themselves against unlawful violence of being killed, raped, sodomised, extorted, kidnapped, abducted, brutalised, dehumanised, debased, deprived of their rights to private and family life, freedom of movement, right of residency, peaceful assembly and association and protection of their property.”
“A declaration that the refusal, failure and/or neglect of the defendants to abate the killings, raping, sodomising, extorting, kidnapping, abduction, brutalisation, dehumanisation, debasement, destruction of property, the restriction of the freedom of movement and right of residence, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, family and private life and the seizing of property of defenceless Nigerian citizens by heavily armed criminals with unlicensed AK 47 Assault rifles, General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG) and other sophisticated weapons is a breach of the social contract between the defendants and Nigerian citizens.”Jamb Result
The lawyer is specifically seeking a declaration that “it is unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional for the 2nd defendant (President ) to refuse, fail and/or neglect to grant the plaintiff licence to possess and own an A6 147 Premium AK 47 Assault Rifle based on the Plaintiff’s application of 8/7/2021 which the 2nd Defendant received on 9/7/2021 to enable the Plaintiff exercise his constitutional right to self-defence for protection life and property.”
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