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AGBENIGA
V.
ADEJIMIROYE & ANOR

(2016) JELR 37089 (CA)

Court of Appeal 7 Jan 2016 Nigeria
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- The appellant sought enforcement of her fundamental rights under the 1999 Constitution and Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 2009, alleging she was assaulted and threatened by the respondents during a dispute over land bord

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Suit Number:CA/AK/67/2013
Judges:MOJEED ADEKUNLE OWOADE JCA MOHAMMED AMBI-USI DANJUMA JCA JAMES SHEHU ABIRIYI JCA
Counsel:A. Omoware For the Appellant; O. S. Adedeko For the Respondent.

MOJEED ADEKUNLE OWOADE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of A. O. Adebusoye J. of the High Court of Ondo State sitting at Akure, delivered on 24/1/2013.

The Appellant as Applicant filed an application under the Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules 2009 on 30/7/2015 praying for the following reliefs:

1. An order restraining the Respondents, their Agents and Privies Whosoever/Howsoever, from engaging in any further acts of harassment, intimidation, disturbance, inhuman treatment and threat to the life of the Applicant and her household and from engaging in any manner of violation of the fundamental rights of the Applicant to life, dignity of her person and private and family life forth with.

2. N10 Million as exemplary damages against the Respondents for the harassment, intimidation, disturbance, inhuman treatment and threat to the life of Applicant by beating her to comma coupled with further threat to teach her and her husband …

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