Rights to the effect that African countries including the Federal Republic of Nigeria that still maintain the death sentence should comply fully with their obligation under the African Charter, And guarantee to every person accused of crime for which capital punishment is applicable, fair trial standards. (d) An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant and/or agents from carrying out the public threat to execute the applicants and other persons on the death row of the defendant. (e) An order for the respect of the applicants’ right to free and unrestricted access to their lawyer. (f) An order for the respect of applicants’ right to be visited by their families. (g) An order for immediate release of the applicants from detention forthwith. (h) An order directing the defendant to pay a monetary compensation of 50,000,000 naira only to the 1st applicant for damages suffered as a result the long years he has been kept in prison under cruel, degrading and inhuman condition. (i) An order directing the defendant to pay a monetary compensation of 150,000,000 naira only to the second applicant, who is now partially paralyzed, as a result of the long years he has been kept in prison under cruel, degrading and inhuman condition without access to medical care. (j) An order directing the defendant to faithfully and fully implement its obligations under its own constitution and the African Charter as well as resolutions and moratorium on execution adopted recently by both the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. 3.9. In their defense in opposition to the applicants’ application, the defendant filed equally a fourteen count answer on the March 19, 2018. The defendant interposed a general denial of all the allegations and averments in the applicants’ Application except where admitted in the Defense and hold the applicants to the strictest proof of some averments in the Application since according to the defendant, they are untrue and they lie within the personal knowledge of the applicants. 3.10. The defendant further contends that the applicants’ Application failed to disclose any cause of action against the defendant for the following reasons: Page | 4