Legal practitioners, Aloy Ejimakor, Patrick Agazie and their associates have initiated a class action suit against the proliferation of military checkpoints in the Southeast.
The lawyers said the checkpoints have become oppressive and a menace to the people of the Southeast.
In the fundamental rights suit in which Chinedu Augustine Agbodike is the Applicant on behalf of the people of Southeast, the Chief of Army Staff, Nigerian Army, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Federal Government of Nigeria were listed as the Respondents.
They demanded the sum of five billion naira as exemplary, aggravated and general damages for the widespread and continuing violation of the fundamental rights of citizens of the South-East region of Nigeria.
The suit, which was filed at the High Court of Enugu State on 17th June 2026, specifically sought the following declarations and orders.
The orders read: “A declaration that the indiscriminate deployment, establishment, operation and maintenance of military checkpoints and roadblocks by the Respondents across Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo and Abia States, which have resulted in harassment, extortion, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention, torture, degrading treatment, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of citizens, constitute violations of the fundamental rights guaranteed under Sections 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41 and 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and Articles 4, 5, 6, I, 11, 12 and 19 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
“A declaration that the routine deployment of military personnel for internal
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