SKYPOWER EXPRESS AIRWAYS LTD. V. AJUMA OLIMA & ANOR

NZEAKO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the ruling of Kolo, J., sitting at the Federal High Court, Jos, delivered on 15th January, 1997, against the appellant herein, who was the 3rd respondent in the court below. Two others who did not appeal were the 1st and 2nd respondents.

The respondents in this appeal were the applicants in the court below. They were citizens residing at Omutele village of Benue State. They are the relations of one Frank Olima, said to be a staff of the appellant, a company in Lagos. They claimed that at the "instance" of the appellant, the police came to their said village on 27/11/96, arrested them and took them away to Lagos, where they were detained at the Zone II Headquarters C.I.D., Onikan, Lagos. As deposed in the affidavit in support of the respondent's claim, the reason for their arrest was that their said relation, Frank Olima was alleged to have committed some offence at his place of work as a staff of the appellant…