CHIMA CENTUS NWEZE, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): At the High Court of Akwa Ibom State, Ukanafun Judicial Division, the respondents in this appeal (as applicants) brought an application for the enforcement of their fundamental rights against the Commissioner of Police, Akwa Ibom State (as first respondent) and the present appellant (as second respondent). Their complaint was predicated on the claim that their fundamental rights were infringed, or likely to be infringed, by the arrest and detention of the second; third and fourth respondents; the likely arrest of the first respondent and the appellant's alleged threat (in collaboration with the police) to kill the fifth respondent.
Issues were joined in the affidavit evidence of the parties. The court (hereinafter, simply, referred to as "the lower court"), in its ruling of October 26, 2009, pages 207 - 208 of the record, awarded the sum of N50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand Naira as damages) against the appellant herein. The lower …