The Court presided over by Hon. Justice Emeka Nwite, delivered its judgement in a case with Suit No.HHC/WR/CS/93/2017.The Plaintiffs, who are the widow and the infant children of late Otunba Ajayi were represented pro bono by Kunle Edun Esq, National Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Bar Association.
The soldiers had to rush him to the military hospital in Benin and called his wife, the 1st Plaintiff, to make arrangement to take her husband home. Delivering Judgement, Hon. Justice Emeka Nwite, declared that, “The arrest and detention of late Ajayi between the 8th of May, 2017 and the 12th of May, 2017 was unlawful, unconstitutional and therefore, an act of gross violation of the fundamental right to life, personal liberty, human dignity and freedom of movement of Otunba Ajayi Oladele as enshrined in the Section 33, 34,35 and 41 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as Amended.