J. O. OGEBE, J.C.A (Delivering the leading Judgment): The appellant and its Managing Director Mr. Efe Oputu sued the respondents in the Federal High Court, Lagos claiming the following reliefs in their statement of claim:
"(a) Against the first defendant:
The first plaintiff claims the sum of N1, 000,000.00 (One Million Naira only) as damages for unlawful detention, false imprisonment and harassment.
(b) The second plaintiff claims the sum of N1, 000,000.00 (One Million Naira only) against the first defendant for loss of business and forced closures caused by the Police and the P.T.F. on the instigation of the first defendant.
(c) Against all the defendants jointly and/or severally:
(c1) A declaration that the second plaintiff having fully paid a total sum of at least N6,000,000.00 (Six million Naira only) to the first defendant regarding the party's issuance of a bank draft NO.04210 in that sum to a third party at the instruction of the second plaintiff is no longer indebted to the f…