<p class="ql-align-justify"><strong><span style="background-color: transparent">UGOCHUKWU ANTHONY OGAKWU, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgement): </span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent">The facts which spawned this appeal are simple and straightforward. They are not convoluted. The Appellant was incarcerated for twelve years without trial. He consequently brought an action for the enforcement of his fundamental rights, claiming the following reliefs: </span><strong><span style="background-color: transparent">  </span></strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><em><span style="background-color: transparent">“1</span></em><strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent">. DECLARATION</span></em></strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent"> of this Honourable Court that keeping the Applicant in detention by the Respondents for period of 12 years without years without trial is against the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights and Universal Declaration of Human Right.</span></em></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><em><span style="background-color: transparent">2. </span></em><strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent">DECLARATION</span></em></strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent"> of this Court that detention of the Applicant at the instance of the Respondents for period of 12 years without trial has violated the Applicant’s Fundament </span></em><span style="background-color: transparent">[sic] </span><em><span style="background-color: transparent">Human Rights and is therefore entitled to damages.</span></em></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><em><span style="background-color: transparent">3. </span></em><strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent">AN ORDER</span></em></strong><em><span style="background-color: transparent"> of this Court unconditionally discharging, releasing and setting the Applicant free from incarceration and Prison cu…</span></em></p>