3. A declaration that the Applicants continued incarceration/ detention amounted to the violation of their fundamental human rights to freedom of movement. 4. An order that the Applicants be released and their rights restored. 5 An order directing the first Defendant to pay the sum of USD, 250,000,000.00 (Two hundred and fifty million United States Dollars) as compensation to the Applicants for subjecting them to inhuman treatment and the deprivation, humiliation and denial of their human rights and freedom. 6. A declaration that the 2nd , 4th and 5th Defendants should pay the sum of USD250,000,000.00 (two hundred and fifty million United States Dollars jointly and severally as compensation for damages to the Applicants for treatment, deprivation, humiliation resulting from their unlawful and unjust conviction and sentence to death by hanging. 3. THE DEFENDANTS’ CASE: In answer to the claim, the 1st and the 3rd Defendants denied all the allegations of the Plaintiffs and raised a preliminary objection on the jurisdiction and competence of the Court to entertain the action on the following grounds, namely; 1. That the subject matter of the application i.e. the conviction and sentence of the Plaintiffs is the same as an appeal pending before the 6