The Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN) hereby demands for immediate release of one of her members, CEO Iroko Interiors, Ayanda Carter, who is being detained unlawfully by the Nigeria Police Force.
IDAN is also calling the attention of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mr Usman Baba and the entire public to the gross abuse of power by the Nigeria Police Force and the infringement of the fundamental human rights of Ms. Ayanda Carter.
In a Press Statement issued by IDAN and signed by the Founder, IDAN, Titi Ogufere and the President of IDAN, Mrs Jennifer Chukwujekwe, Ms. Carter is a Nigeria-based South African interior designer who has been illegally detained by the Police at Kuje Prison, Abuja.
According to the Press Statement, Ms. Carter is being detained on trumped up allegations of a breach of contract between her company and Mr Stanley Uzochukwu on an ongoing project in Lagos.
“It is baffling that Ms. Carter, who initially made a complaint to the Police, would inexplicably be the party arrested and locked up by the Police”.
The Association notes that this is uncalled for and as such does not justify the arrest or detention of Ms Carter or even worse, the transfer of the case to Abuja (far away from the Lagos location of the said project).
“The Association is deeply concerned about the brazen manner in which the Police is being invited and used to intervene in a purely civil matter. Indeed, the entirety of the facts suggest a punitive desire to deploy the Police to punish Ms. Carter; this has nothing to do with crime detection”.
IDAN hereby demands the immediate release of Ms. Ayanda.
