FORT ROYAL HOMES LIMITED & ANOR V. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION & ANOR

ABUBAKAR DATTI YAHAYA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal has arisen from the ruling of Honourable Justice Garba Salisu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory holden at Abuja in suit number FCT/HC/M/77/12, delivered on the 16th day of January, 2013.

The appellants herein were the applicants at the lower Court. They prayed for the following reliefs:

1. A declaration that the arrest and detention of the 2nd applicant on the 18th day of September 2012 for no reasonable ground was unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional and a gross violation of the 2nd applicants fundamental rights to personal liberty by the respondents.

2. A declaration that the denial of the 2nd applicant of the right to consult with his legal practitioner after his arrest on the 18th day of September, 2012 is unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional and a gross violation of the 2nd applicant's fundamental rights to personal liberty by the respondents.

3. An order restraining the 1st respondent from fu…