JUMMAI HANNATU SANKEY, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The facts leading to this Appeal are that the Appellants, Amos Akila, Daniel Gyang and Yakubu Sule, were arrested on the 30th July, 2010 by officers and men of the State Security Services, (agents of the 1st and 2nd Respondents), at a house in Maiduguri. Upon the execution of a search warrant in the premises, they were found to be in possession of a variety and quantity of arms and ammunition. They were promptly arrested and detained without bail. Sometime during the period of their incarceration, specifically on the 19th August, 2010, they were paraded before members of the public and media. As a result, the 3rd and 4th Respondents, Media Trust Nigeria Ltd and Isa Umaru Gusau, who were present and watched the public spectacle, featured the story with photographs, in their Daily Trust newspaper of 19th August, 2010.
On the 8th October, 2010, while still in detention and having not been arraigned before any Court of law for…