MUHAMMAD, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant is a legal practitioner. At the time the facts that gave rise to these proceedings arose, he was a member of the National Youth Service Corps. He was doing his primary assignment as a Youth Corper in Maiduguri. He was also a member of the Nigerian Christian Corpers Fellowship. On 6th June, 1994, he went to the Youth Service Corps Camp in Maiduguri for the usual activities of the said fellowship. He found the gate to the camp under lock and key. He asked to be allowed into the camp but the security men at the gate refused. It was then one Adamu Shehu came into the scene. The appellant seeing that the said Adamu Shehu was a more senior officer than the security men, asked him to be allowed into the camp. Adamu Shehu refused and threatened to get the appellant beaten up. The appellant was then
grabbed by the security men and was forcefully dragged into the camp where he was beaten up and forced to sit on the bare ground for…