JOSEPH OLUBUNMI KAYODE OYEWOLE, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is in respect of an appeal against the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division delivered on the 6th May, 2022 by MAHA, J.
By an Originating Summons filed on the 10th July, 2020, the Appellant approached the lower court for a determination of the questions upon which it sought the reliefs all set out thus:
i) Whether the Plaintiff has locus standi to institute this proceedings?
ii) Whether the Plaintiff’s Right to Life enshrined in Section 33(1) of Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) means the protection of the Plaintiff’s life beyond mere physical and animal existence and extends to the right to live a meaningful, complete and dignified life?
iii) Whether the Plaintiff’s Right to Life enshrined in Section 33(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) prohibits any unlawful acts of omission or commission by the Nigerian State, Nigerian Po…