OLUKAYODE ARIWOOLA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of Honourable Justice D.O.C. Amaechina of the Anambra State High Court sitting in Onitsha, delivered on Monday, the 18th day of July, 2005.
Pursuant to the leave granted to the Applicants, hereinafter referred to as the Appellants, on the 25th April, 2005, the Appellants on 29th April, 2005 filed their substantive application for the enforcement of their fundamental rights. In the application they had sought the following reliefs:-
"(i) A DECLARATION that the applicants are entitled to elect to belong or not to belong to the Federal Low Cost Housing Estate Residents Association, Onitsha.
(ii) A DECLARATION that the harassment, threats, intimidation, oppression, arrest and constant and persistent threat of arrest of the applicants by the respondents, their servants, agents and privies in the respondents' bid to compel the applicants into membership of Federal Low Cost Housing Estate Residents…