MUSA NJIMEN HASSAN V. ATTORNEY GENERAL AND COMMISSIONER FOR JUSTICE & COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

MOJEED ADEKUNLE OWOADE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Justice of Kaduna State delivered on the 20th day of May, 2020 by Honourable Justice D. H. Khobo.

By a Motion on Notice 30-08-2019, accompanied with statement in support of the Application and affidavit in support under the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules the Appellant as Applicant moved the Court for the following declarations and reliefs:

“1. A DECLARATION that the continuous invitation of the Applicant by the Respondents under the guise of meetings over a purely civil matter pending at the High Court of Kaduna State in Suit No: KDH/KAD/546/2019 MUSA NJIMEN HASSAN V. THE GOVERNOR OF KADUNA STATE and 2 ORS is unconstitutional and constitute a likely infringement of the Applicant’s fundamental human rights as guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Rati…