Femi Falana (SAN) has threatened to sue Dangote Group of Companies over the death of some Nigerians in various accidents involving the companies’ vehicles.
He expressed disappointment at how Dangote’s trucks have been killing Nigerians on the highways without challenge from the Federal Government.
He also said that some multinational oil companies would not be spared in litigation over their failure to pay compensation to communities in which they operate, describing as gross abuse of human rights, the manner in which the oil companies were denying the families of the victims adequate compensation after killing their bread winners.
Falana, who spoke at Ilawe-Ekiti at the weekend, said a consortium of lawyers, headed by him and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), was fine-tuning arrangements on some litigation targeted at correcting perceived social-ills in the country.
“We have received series of complaints from Nigerians about how their families are being cheated by some of these companies after their beloved ones had been killed. We will no longer tolerate this and steps must be taken to ensure that such families are compensated,” he said.
He disclosed that his team would also to take up legal battle against those fingered in the killing of a 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Rebecca Adewumi, at Omuo-Ekiti over alleged witchcraft.
The woman was beaten to death on June 30 by some suspected youths in the community for allegedly inflicting her step son, Ola Adewumi (now dead), with a strange illness through her witchcraft.
“There are many killings we are involved in currently. The recent killings of four students in the University of Port Harcourt, the killings of 46 students in Mubi, the stoning to death of an old woman, the so-called witch in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Most importantly, we are pursuing the operatives of the Joint Task Force, JTF, and the police for extra-judicial killings in the country,” the lawyer cited.
Source: Daily Times
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