March 2020 by the 1st 2nd and 3rd Respondents is illegal, unlawful, unreasonable, unjustified and unconstitutional. 2. An order directing the Respondents to pay to the applicant jointly and severally the sum of N10,000,000 {ten million naira only} being special and general damages for the illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional arrest and detention of the applicant from 9th – 20th March, 2020. 3. An order directing the Respondents to unconditionally release the applicant from the unlawful detention in their custody. 4. An order directing the Respondents’ to tender a public apology to the applicant and to publish same in two National Daily Newspapers. The originating motion is supported by a statement setting out the name and description of the applicant, the grounds upon which the reliefs are sought and the reliefs sought therein. Also in support of the originating motion, is a 6 paragraphs grounds upon which the application is brought as well as a 10 paragraphs supporting affidavit deposed to by one Sa’adatu Mahmud Yabo a litigation secretary in the Law firm of M.M. Yabo E.Co. Al-huda Law Chambers because the applicant was in detention at the detention facility of the Respondents. In compliance with the Rules of this Court, the applicant accompanied his originating process with a written address which the applicant’s counsel adopted as their legal argument and urges the court to grant the application after relying on all the averments contained in the 10 paragraphs supporting affidavit. 5

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