The court, presided by Katsina state Chief Jugde, Justice Abdullahi Yusuf, gave the order when it ruled on a suit filed by Barr. Essien against the IGP and others. The court awarded one hundred million to Barr. Essien as “aggravated or general damages to his dignity, pains, psychological and mental torture” and a fifty million as compensatory damages for the violation of his personal liberty. Essien, a Katsina based legal practitioner, had approached the court in 2015 to seek for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights and right to personal liberty dignity of human person. In the suit which was filed by his counsels, Iorkhuma Ker Shadrack and four others, Essien accused the police of brutality, torture and humiliation, alleging that he was assaulted by the police when he went to the station to negotiate the bail of his client. It would be recalled that Barrister Essien accused the police attached to Sabongarin Division in Katsina municipal, of allegedly assaulting him when he visited the station to perform his duties as a lawyer. In an affidavit deposed to by Essien, he noted that “ police officers numbering not less than seven joined in assaulting me, (slapping, boxing, kicking and beating)” adding that the station’s DPO “stood by watching and giving orders that I should be severely beaten.”]]>