A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar awards N100 million in damages against the Nigeria Police Force and four other respondents over the death of 22-year-old Onyekachi Mba. The court delivers the judgment through Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu in a fundamental rights enforcement case filed by Mba’s mother, Victoria Mba. The suit relates to an incident at or near the Government House in Calabar, where police security personnel attached to the Cross River State Government House allegedly beat Mba and then shot him. Reports say Mba dies after the injuries, with some accounts stating he dies after being taken to the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital. The court finds that the conduct of the officers amounts to unlawful abuse of power and violates constitutional rights including liberty, dignity, and freedom of movement. The damages are ordered to be paid jointly or individually by the named respondents, which are reported to include the Nigeria Police Force, senior police officers, the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, the Police Service Commission, and the Government House chief security officer.