Police To Pay Tricyclists N2m For Illegal Detention

So here's how Punch news paper is reporting the story of a tricyclist who was wrongly detained like seriously? does this really happen?

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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday awarded N2m as damages against the police for illegal arrest and detention of three tricycle riders.
The sum was awarded in favour of  Samson Adeotan, Oluwole Owolabi and Oluwasegun Ogundare.
The three men had filed a suit  seeking an order of the court to declare as a breach of their fundamental rights their arrest by officers of the Nigerian Police and their  invitation  by the Commissioner of Police Special Fraud Unit, over a matter “that was purely civil.”
Joined as respondent/defendant in the suit are the Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud Unit, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State and Petra Microfinance Bank Ltd.
The applicants on behalf of a group, the Keke Owners Association of Nigeria, had entered into a loan agreement with Petra Microfinance Bank Ltd. on April 16, 2006.
It was agreed that the bank would supply members of the group 50 tricycles with an instalmental payment plan.

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