MUHAMMAD ABUBAKAR V. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF KANO STATE & COMMISSION OF POLICE KANO STATE

OLUDOTUN ADEBOLA ADEFOPE-OKOJIE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The brief facts of this case are that the Appellant instituted an action before the lower Court for the enforcement of his fundamental rights, seeking the following reliefs, by his Motion on Notice dated 3/1/12:

1. DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that arrest of the Applicant without reasonable suspicion of having committed any crime and his subsequent detention for a period of 9 years from February, 2003 to date without trial is against the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a violation of the Applicant's Fundamental Human Rights to personal liberty, freedom of movement and right to fair hearing within reasonable time and the applicant is therefore entitled to general and exemplary damages

2. DECLARATION of this Court that detention of the Applicant at the instance of the Respondents for period of 9 ye…