III.2- He maintained that this decision caused a panic and hostility of the highest dignitaries of the regime, that it was at this time he learnt that authorities have set up a an Independent Judicial Commission of Enquiry, of which one of the main tasks is to make him the scapegoat of the political and financial scandal, that it is in this context that the said Commission arbitrarily arrested and detained him on 12 July 2010, that on 16 July 2010 the Commission terminated the police disposition of deprivation of liberty and presented him before the Attorney General at the Supreme Court who requested the opening of a judicial enquiry against him before the judicial Chamber of the said Court; that on Saturday, 17 July 2010 the President of the Judicial Chamber notified him of his placement under custody till this date; III.3- He said he notified the Constitutional Court of Benin by an application dated 14 September 2010 to contest the legality of the Constitution of these acts including his arrest and detention, that two (02) months later this court delivered decision P-CC-10-140 dated 23 November 2010 and on the issue of custody disposed “furthermore, considering that it is established that Mr Georges Constant AMOUSSOU was kept in custody in the premises of the Compagnie de Gendarmerie de Cotonou from 12 July 2010 to 11pm on 16 July 2010 after an extension of forty-eight hours of this custody on 14 July 2010 by the third Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic at the Court of First Instance of Cotonou, that consequently, the said custody is not unreasonable and does not constitute a violation of the Constitution” that the Court clearly defined the time of the arrest and duration of police custody, that the option of legal information having been retained on 16 July 2010 the warrant which he seems to have been the subject should have intervened this 16 July and not on 17 July 2010 as was indicated in the warrant, that it thus appears arbitrary detention period from 16 July 2010 declared date of termination of custody and the beginning of the judicial enquiry on 17 July 2010 which is twenty-four hours after the end of official custody, that not being released in this time period from arrest or detention in the hands of members of the famous Independent Judicial Commission of Inquiry; III.4- He added that based on the Constitution and duly ratified conventions by the Republic of Benin, he came before the Constitutional Court with an application dated 11 November 2013 filed and registered on 26 December 2013 to make an order on the continued violation which kept him in prison, the Constitutional Court did not adjudicate even though the deadlines in this regard should not only be eight (08) days; 4

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