SIDI DAUDA BAGE, JSC(Delivering the Leading Judgment): The application for enforcement of their fundamental rights filed by the 2nd and 3rd Respondents at the Federal High Court, Port-Harcourt Division, which led to this appeal, was prompted by a letter of invitation written by the Appellant Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the 2nd and 3rd Respondents on the issue of bank fraud and diversion of funds to other use:
FACTS OF THE CASE
The facts are that the 2nd and 3rd Respondents as the applicants at the lower Court were customers of the 1st Respondent bank since 1994. The relationship continued until 2003 when the 1st and 2nd Respondents suspected some discrepancies in the management of their account with the 1st Respondent. They engaged a banking consultant to investigate, and it was allegedly discovered that the 1st Respondent had illegally over charged the 1st and 2nd Respondents, in the management of their account, to a tune of N10,776, 921.19k refund of which …