RAPHAEL CHIKWE AGBO JCA (Delivering the Leading Ruling): The applicants were respondents in Suit No. HCI/M16/06 determined by the High Court of Delta State sitting at the Issele-Uku Judicial Division on 28th July 2010. It was a fundamental Right proceeding in which the trial court adjudged as follows:
"This application therefore succeeds and the applicant is granted the following reliefs:
1. Public apology from the respondents in view of the humiliating and inhuman treatment meted out to them.
2. The sum of N2 million as damages to the applicant for the violation of her rights as afore-mentioned plus injury suffered by her especially in view of her age as shown in the affidavit evidence before the court.
3. The respondents and their agents are hereby restrained from further interfering with the rights of the applicants as afore-mentioned in sections 34 and 35 of the 1999 Constitution."
The applicants took no steps to challenge this judgment until 24/2/2011 when they filed an incompete…