INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE ASSISTANT INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (ZONE “5” HEADQUARTERS, BENIN CITY) MR. JOSHUA UTURU MR. ADEBE GOWON MR. EFEMENA OGBU MRS. PATIENCE OGBU MISS OGHOGHO OTUAGA MISS OSIONI OSO V. REV. ODIGBO JOHNMARK CHIEF ELEHO JACKO MR. GABRIEL EMPIRE CHIEF PIUS OTUAGA CHIEF SIMON ODHOMOR MR. OYIBO O. CLEMENT (BEKO) MR. FELIX OKOLOR MR. OBI GOLDPIN MR. OYIBO EMMANUEL MR. ORAHEMOR ADIGHEJI MR. MATTHEW OFFE MR. OKPOWE OTHUKE MR. UBUWARE IDONIS MR. RUEBEN IZEGHE

ONIYANGI JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The High Court of Delta State sitting in Oleh Judicial Division and presided over by Hon. Justice (Dr.) F.O. Oho on 21 December 2011 delivered a considered judgment in a matter of Enforcement of Fundamental Human Rights as enshrined in sections 41 and 46 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and wherein the respondents sought for the following orders of the court: “(1) An order of injunction that the purported arrest anddetention of the applicants and the continuous harassment so that they will not be able to get assess to court to testify as witnesses in charge No. HCO/2C/2010, The State v. Joshua Uturu and 6 Ors, before the court No. 2 ward is unlawful, wrongful, unconstitutional and null and void. (2) An order of injunction restraining the respondents, their servants, agents and privies from further harassing , arresting, and/or detaining applicants or doing anything inconsistent with the Fundamental Human Righ…