The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans till Wednesday.

Justice Abdulaziz Anka adjourned the case to Wednesday after listening to the submissions of counsel to Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje; as well as the counsel to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Eze.

According to Concisenews, The other parties listed as respondents are the Inspector General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force which were not represented in court. In the suit, Evans is asking the court to declare that his continued detention, since June 10 without arraignment, violates his fundamental rights as guaranteed in the 1999 Constitution.

He also seeks a declaration that his parade on June 11 before journalists at the Lagos Police Command Headquarters in Ikeja without any court order was unconstitutional and illegal.

The suspected kidnapper asked the court to order the respondents to immediately arraign him before a law court or release him from custody forthwith.

He prayed the court for an order compelling the respondents to jointly and severally pay him the sum of N300m as exemplary damages for his alleged illegal detention and alleged harm caused by his media trial. Eze on Tuesday said the suit was not ripe for hearing as the Inspector General of Police and the Police Commissioner, who are distinct legal personalities, have not been personally served with the court processes.

Ogungbeje, however, countered the statement by insisting that the law, under Order 5 Rule 2 of the Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules of 2009, allows him to serve the agents of the respondent.