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 the 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.
The plaintiff in the matter, Incorporated Trustees of Forum for Accountability and Good Leadership, had dragged the Attorney-General of the Federation, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, DSS, Inspector General of Police, IGP and CBN to court and prayed that they be stopped by the court from further harassing Emefiele.
