separation of powers and the rule of law will transform to the Rule by Might and enthronement of tyranny. In Oko-Osi V. Akindele (2013) LPELR-20353(CA) the Nigerian Court of Appeal held: "Yet, it's a trite veritable principle, that obedience to lawful orders of Court is fundamentally a sine qua non to the good order, peace and stability of the Nigerian Nation, nor any notion for that matter. Paradoxically, the alternative to obedience of lawful Court Order is brute self-help and anarchy. As authoritatively held by the Supreme Court: Disobedience to an order of Court should, therefore, be seen as an offence directed not against the personality of the judge who made the order, but as a calculated act of subversion of peace, law and order in the Nigerian society." The principle of presumption of innocence posit that everyone 1s presumed imnocent until the contrary is proved. The constitutional provisions cited earlier provide a time frame within which a person so arrested and detained is to be brought before the Court of law. The Defendant in the instant case took laws into their hands when they re-arrested, and continued to detain the Applicant without any legal justification. It 1s trite law that every person is presumed innocent until the contrary is proved. Likewise, the 36" principle of Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under any form of Detention or Imprisonment of the United Nations, states that: [a] detained person suspected of or charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent and shall be treated as such until proved guilty according to 46