TOM SHAIBU YAKUBU, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Governor of Ebonyi State had in 2005 set up a Panel of Inquiry which investigated the operations of the Ebonyi State Local Government Audit. The said Panel at the end of its assignment submitted its report to the said Government and in the report, the Panel recommended that a larger body of inquiry be set up to further look into the matter. The Government, in accepting the report, subsequently set up a 7 - man Technical Committee which was headed by the 1st appellant which in its recommendation to Government indicted the respondent.
Not unnaturally, the respondent was not pleased with the decision of the 1st appellant's committee against him and so he approached the Ebonyi State High Court of Justice with an Ex parte application, seeking the enforcement of the breach of his fundamental rights. Upon the grant of the ex parte application, the respondent sought the following reliefs in the amended statement in support of the…