AKINTAN JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The two appellants were arrested and detained at Garga Police Station in Plateau State for armed robbery sometime in October, 2002. They were later transferred to Jos Police Headquarters and then to Jos C.I.D where they were detained for quite sometime before they were arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court, Jos on 11 December 2002. They then caused to be issued a summon to admit them to bail pending trial at the Jos High Court. The application was supported with a five-paragraph affidavit. Paragraph three of the supporting affidavit deposed to by one Serah Ibrahim, litigation secretary, in the law firm of the appellants’ counsel, read as follows:
“3. That I have been informed by the applicants in Jos prison on 9 March 2003 at 12.00 noon while briefing A.A Sangei Esq. of counsel and verily believe their information to be true:
(a) That the applicants were arrested and detained at Garga Police Station for alleged offence of armed robbery…