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HUSSEIN MUKHTAR, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Federal High Court Lagos (the lower court) delivered on the 13th December, 2004 by Lewis-Allagoa, J wherein the learned trial Judge dismissed the appellant's application for enforcement of fundamental right for want of jurisdiction on ground of non-joinder of the Inspector General of Police whom the court viewed as a necessary party. The appellant was aggrieved by that decision and appealed against it on two grounds, which are reproduced hereunder less their particulars:
1)"The lower court erred in law when it held that in the instant case before me the Inspector General of Police is a necessary party whose action is complained of the applicant has not joined him as a necessary party therefore this court has no jurisdiction to grant the applicant the relief he is seeking.
2) The lower court erred in law and in fact when it held that the arrest by the 2nd respondent on 15th July, 1997 …