rights enshrined and protected by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights and the Revised Treaty of ECOWAS.
2. A DECLARATION that the seizure of the Plaintiff’s passport and demand for
gratification of 300 CFA before the Plaintiff could be allowed to proceed on
his journey which resulted to Plaintiff’s detention by officers of the Defendant
is unlawful and a violation of Plaintiff’s rights to free movement of his person
as protected in Article 12 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights, Article 32 of the Revised Treaty of ECOWAS and the Protocol of the
Revised Treaty of ECOWAS relating to movement of persons.
3. A DECLARATION that the Defendant by this gross abuse of the Plaintiff
rights, has breached its duty and violated its solemn covenant to uphold the
laws which the Defendant swore to in the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights and the Revised Treaty of ECOWAS.
4. The sum of N25,000,000.00 (Twenty-five Million Naira) only as
compensation to the Plaintiff by the Defendant for physical, emotional and
psychological trauma suffered and still suffered by the Plaintiff.20
5. 10% interest of the judgement sum from the date of judgement until same is
liquidated.
6. The sum of N3,000,000.00 (Three Million Naira) only as the cost of funding
investigation and this law suit.
7. A written apology from the Defendant to the Plaintiff.
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