MADAM BENEDICTA A. OBOMANU V. MR. S. D. GEORGEWILL L.V.C MICHAELS WILMOT DORNUBARI NWIKPO ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (E.F.C.C) SIRAJOA. LUKEMAN (ZONALHEAD E.F.C.C, PORT HARCOURT)

FASANMI JCA (DELIVERING THE LEAD JUDGMENT): This is an appeal against the decision of the Rivers State High Court of justice delivered on 20 August 2013 in suit No. BHC/39/2013.

The appellant by a motion dated and filed on 14 March 2013 , brought an application for the enforcement of her fundamental rights to personal liberty and freedom of movement in terms of the following reliefs:

“1. A declaration that the continuous harassment, intimidations, threat of arrest and detention of the applicant by the 4th and 5th respondents at the instigation of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents working as partners in respect of the 5,103 kilometer Duburo/East West Road Construction Project, embodied in the “Road Construction Agreement of 15 December 2010”, subject matter of suit No. BHC/149/2012 pending and subsisting before the honourable court is an infringement of the applicant’s fundamental rights to personal liberty and freedom of movement guaranteed and protected under the Constitution of the Fe…