loss, assuming that when victims are made whole, wrongdoers are sanctioned and deterred from engaging in future misconduct', 59, As such the award of damages compensate in monetary terms is designed to plaintiffs for harm they have suffered, intended to make the victim as wen off as he or she would have been if the injury had never occurred. The process therefore focuses on fairness to the victim and the wrongdoer, 60. In this instant case, the applicant made a claim for a lump sum payment against the defendant and for the unlawful detention of of N2.o, 000,000 the plaintiff and an order for pecuniary damages of loss of earnings in the sum to be determined; and an order that they shall pay the plaintiff cost of action in accordance with Article 66 of the Rules of procedure of this court, The last relief but one was not quantified or specified but rather speculative, 61. The last being as a matter of course in accordance with Article 66 of the Rules poses no difficulty but, the one on pecuniary finds whatsoever either in the pleadings 110 justification initially filed and the amended pleadings or in the one made in the motion granted by the court, which introduced exhibits OAl and OA2, OA,'3, OA4 and OAS respectively. 62. After having examined the ,evidence in this regard, the Court holds that detention from 200a to on a holding charge 2004 in Kiri-kiri Maximum Prison Apapa Lagos without human trial is manifestly rights as provided a violation of the in Article 9(4) of the Court and Articles 6 and 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. 22

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