Exclusive Economic Zones. Which made Nigeria to enact her law: Exclusive Economic Zone Act and crude oil (Transportation and Shipment), which the Applicants did not contravene. Consequently, the Learned Counsel to the Applicants submitted that the act against his clients by the Defendants cannot justify. Even more, the Learned Counsel emphasized that Exclusive Economic Zone, Coastal state, such as Nigeria must respect the rights of other states, and can only act in the zone in line with Article 110 of the said United Nations Convention. He relied on section 379 (2) of merchant shipping Act to support that the extra territorial jurisdiction does not extend to acts that occurred outside Nigeria. 12. He strongly submitted that the defendants were not competent to regulate shipping outside her territorial waters, as they admitted and as mentioned in the evidence presented by Sylvester Njoku and Emmanuel Ogunka in the judgment the Nigerian Court, already pleaded, in which all vessels automatically acquire licence or an authorization, at 16 nautical miles, which is outside Nigeria territorial waters and do not need regulation or authorization. He relied on section 7 and 6 of the crude oil Regulation (Transportation and Shipment) Cap P. 10 LFN 2004 on the creation and regulation of activities relating to petroleum occurring in Nigeria. He stated that it is no doubt that MT Capbreton did not load in Nigeria but rather in Abidjan, in Cote d'ivoire where it loaded the LPFO. 13. The Applicants contended that their arrest, detention and the prosecution of ten of them from the 1st of December 2003 till 30th November 2005 in the Nigerian High Court, and the imprisonment of five others from the 1st of December 2003 to the 2nd of March 2004 by the Defendants was unlawful as they knew that the acts amounted to gross violations of the liberty of the Applicants. 14. The Learned Counsel to the Applicants submitted that under both Domestic and International Law, the Defendants had no right nor power to proceed against the Applicants in Nigeria as they did in the criminal charge that consequently, the charge was incompetent as well as the proceeding that followed, and that in fact, the invalid prosecution amounts to gross infringement of the rights of personal liberty and security as entrenched in Article 6 of the Africa Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights as well as section 35 × 35. (1) Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of such liberty save in the following cases and in accordance with a procedure permitted by law - (a) in execution of the sentence or order of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been found guilty; (b) by reason of his failure to comply with the order of a court or in order to secure the fulfilment of any obligation imposed upon him by law; (c) for the purpose of bringing him before a court in execution of the order of a court or upon reasonable suspicion of his having committed a criminal offence, or to such extent as may be reasonably necessary to prevent his committing a criminal offence; (d) in the case of a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years for the purpose of his education or welfare; (e) in the case of persons suffering from infectious or contagious disease, persons of unsound mind, persons addicted to drugs or alcohol or vagrants, for the purpose of their care or treatment or the protection of the community; or (f) for the purpose of preventing the unlawful entry of any person into Nigeria or of effecting the expulsion, extradition or other lawful removal from Nigeria of any person or the taking of proceedings relating thereto: Provided that a person who is charged with an offence and who has been detained in lawful custody awaiting trial shall not continue to be kept in such detention for a period longer than the maximum period of imprisonment prescribed for the offence. (2) Any person who is arrested or detained shall have the right to remain silent or avoid answering any question until after consultation with a legal practitioner or any other person of his own choice. (3) Any person who is arrested or detained shall be informed in writing within twenty-four hours (and in a language that he understands) of the facts and grounds for his arrest or detention. (4) Any person who is arrested or detained in accordance with subsection (1) (c) of this section shall be brought before a court of law within a reasonable time, and if he is not tried within a period of - (a) two months from the date of his arrest or detention in the case of a person who is in custody or is not entitled to bail; or (b) three months from the date of his arrest or detention in the case of a person who has been released on bail, he shall (without prejudice to any further proceedings that may be brought against him) be released either unconditionally or upon such conditions as are reasonably necessary to ensure that he appears for trial at a later date. (5) In subsection (4) of this section, the expression "a reasonable time" means - (a) in the case of an arrest or detention in any place where there is a court of competent jurisdiction within a radius of forty kilometres, a period of one day; and (b) in any other case, a period of two days or such longer period as in the circumstances may be considered by the court to be reasonable. (6) Any person who is unlawfully arrested or detained shall be entitled to compensation and public apology from the appropriate authority or person; and in this subsection, "the appropriate authority or person" means an authority or person specified by law. (7) Nothing in this section shall be construed - (a) in relation 6