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.
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