The judge accordingly dissed the suit.
El-Zakzaky and his wife had in January 2022 filed the fundamental rights reserved enforcement suit against the NIS and its Comptroller General as 1st and 2nd defendants for alleged refusal to issue new international passports to them.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/22/2022 filed by their lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), they prayed to the court to enforce their rights enshrined in the Nigerian constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.
They equally urged the court to declare that the alleged refusal of the NIS to process their travel documents to enable them to travel abroad for medical treatment was illegal, unconstitutional, null, and void.
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