(DELIVERED BY JIMI OLUKAYODE BADA, J.C.A): This is an appeal against the Ruling of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in Suit No:- FCT/HC/M/827/2007 delivered on 10th day of May, 2007.
Briefly the facts of the case are that the Appellants filed an application for leave to enforce their Fundamental Rights and after obtaining leave, filed a motion on notice in which they sought for the following reliefs:-
"(a) A declaration that the arrest and detention of the Applicants on or about the 10th day of April 2006 is unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional.
(b) A declaration that the continued detention of the Applicants by the Respondents at F.C.I.D. Cell Area 10, Abuja from the time of their arrest a period of about 8 months without trial is unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, null and void.
(c) An order releasing the Applicants from unlawful detention forthwith.
(d) N500,000.00 damages for unlawful detention.
At the conclusion of hearing, the learned trial Judge in its…