<p style="text-align: center"><strong><u>JUDGMENT</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify"><strong>EMMANUEL AKOMAYE AGIM, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): </strong>On 25-5-2004 the appellants herein as plaintiffs commenced Suit No. A/98/2004 against the respondents herein as defendants claiming for -</p><p style="text-align: justify">(i) A declaration that the Autonomous Communities (Recognition) Repeal Law 2004 is not a law of the Anambra State House of Assembly and is consequently unconstitutional null, and void.</p><p style="text-align: justify">(ii) A declaration that provision Section 2 (2) of the Autonomous Communities (Recognition) Repeal Law 2004 purporting to abolish the Plaintiff&#x27;s autonomous communities is unconstitutional null and void.</p><p style="text-align: justify">(iii) A declaration that the provisions of the Autonomous Communities (Recognition) Repeal Law 2004 abolishing/proscribing Plaintiffs&#x27; autonomous Communities is ultra vires the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guaranteeing to the citizens, Freedom of Association.</p><p style="text-align: justify">(iv) A declaration that any repeal of the provisions of the Autonomous Communities (Recognition) Law 200…</p>