UGOCHUKWU ANTHONY OGAKWU, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the decision of the High Court of Lagos State, Coram Justice: D. O. Oluwayemi, J. in SUIT NO. M/166/2011: REV. ZEBULON HARRISON IKUEGBOWO and ORS. v. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE and ORS. By an Originating Motion on Notice filed on 12th November, 2012, the Respondents herein, who were the Applicants at the lower Court, applied for the enforcement of the fundamental rights, claiming the following reliefs:
A. A DECLARATION that the arrest of the Applicants in October, 2010 and January 2011 by the respondents, their agents, servants, officers or otherwise howsoever at Itedo, Lekki, Lagos State constitutes a flagrant violation of the Applicants fundamental rights guaranteed under Sections 35, 38, 40 and 41 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 9, 12 and 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap. 10, Laws of …