The police charged Wilfred Ogbewe,52, Igbinobono Collins, 26, Salami Osayomore, 25, Odion Osayande, 23, Morgan Uwanboe, 47, Ifeoluwa Oladele, 36, and Agbonrere Festus, 25 with the alleged invasion of the state house of assembly premises in Benin, in a manner that caused a breach of peace.
Counsel to the applicants, Mr. Matthias Obayuwana, submitted that the motion was aimed at enforcing the fundamental rights to liberty and personal dignity, freedom from the cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of the applicants by the police authorities. He emphasised that the rights to personal dignity are not such that can be negotiated, waived, neglected, or overlooked.Citing sections of the law to drive home his points, the applicants’ counsel told the court that the respondents did not present any warrant of arrest, petition, or complaint by anyone against the applicants on the basis of which they acted in the early hours of that day, an exercise that was ill-motivated and which smacks of partisanship in the electoral politics of Edo.
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