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MOORE ASEIMO ABRAHAM ADUMEIN, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The 1st respondent was the applicant in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/2644/2015, instituted in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, wherein he applied for the enforcement of his fundamental rights by seeking the following reliefs:
“A. A declaration that the allegation of theft, arrest, and handing over of the applicant to the Bwari Police Station by the 1st and 2nd respondents before any formal complaint to the 3rd respondent and without evidence whatsoever was capricious, unwarranted, wrongful, unconstitutional, and a breach of the applicant’s right to personal liberty.
B. A declaration that the harassment, intimidation, and humiliation of the applicant by the 1st and 2nd respondents and the subsequent arrest and handing over of the applicant to the 3rd respondent by the 1st and 2nd respondents on trumped-up allegations of theft without proof were plotted and executed by the 1st and 2nd respondents to black…