The court also held that the harassment violated his rights to policy making powers freedom of thought, conscience and religion and movement as respectively provided and enshrined under the Constitution of the Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as Amended) and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act and, therefore, unconstitutional and illegal.
The court consequently restrained DSS in particularly, from any continued harassment, arrest etc., of Emefiele over any trumped-up allegation, unless an order of a superior court was first obtained.
