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Lawyer sues FG over Killing of Jos Lion

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An Enugu-based legal practitioner, M. Chukwunonso Ogbe, has dragged the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Pla­teau State Government to court over the killing of a lion late last year.

The lion was shot dead on December 2, 2015 af­ter it escaped from the Jos Wildlife Park apparently to prevent the animal from killing people.
In the case filed on Oc­tober 18, 2016 at the Fed­eral High Court Enugu as the case of Mr Chuk­wunonso Daniel

 Ogbe vs the Attorney-General of the Federation & others, with suit No FHC/EN/CS/122/2016, the lawyer is

 praying the court to declare that the failure of the respondents to pro­vide dart-tranquilizers for the use of the officials of the park in capturing animal was what neces­sitated the use of live bul­lets.

He said it amounts to an abdication of the constitutional responsi­bility bestowed on the re­spondents to protect and 

conserve wildlife, which consequently gave rise to the violation of the right of Nigerians to a general satisfactory

 environment favourable for their development as provided under Article 24 of the African Charter.

Among other reliefs, the plaintiff wants the court to order the re­spondents to tender an apology to the Nigerian 

public and which must be published in a widely read national daily for the reckless manner in which they handled the slain lion.
It would be recalled that the killing of the wild lion upon its escape from the Jos Wildlife Park on December 2, 

attracted global condemnation by wildlife conservation activists who frowned at the inability of Plateau State Government to pro­vide dart-tranquiliser for the capturing of wildlife alive.
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