TUNDE OYEBANJI AWOTOYE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is the judgment in respect of the appeal of the Appellants against the decision of Abia State High Court in suit No: HU/60M/2015 delivered on 13/6/2016.
The Respondents were the Applicants at the lower Court in an application brought under Fundamental Right Enforcement Rules, 2009.
They prayed for the following orders:
1. A Declaration that the order issued by the Respondents through a verbal order made in the meetings warning, restricting and or banning the indigenes or Obizi Amakama Olokoro Autonomous Community in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State and the public from associating or having any form of communication with the Applicants thereby ostracizing the Applicants is an infringement of the Applicants Fundamental Rights to Freedom of Association as guaranteed by Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
2. The sum of one Million Naira (N1,000,000.00) being compensation…