JAMILU YAMMAMA TUKUR. JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgement): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in Suit No: FCT/HC/CV/261/2018 delivered on 26th September 2019 against the Appellants.
The facts of the matter which culminated in this appeal emanated from a fundamental rights action instituted by the Respondent vide Originating Summons dated 23rd August 2018 and filed on 24th August 2018, via which he sought the following:
- An order of this Honourable Court declaring the arrest and treatment of the Applicant by the 1st-4th Respondents as unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional and a breach of his fundamental human rights to personal liberty and dignity of his person as provided for under Sections 34 and 35 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) 2011 as well as Articles V and VI of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and Articles III and IV of the Universal Declaration of Human…