THE IMPERATIVE OF REVIEWING THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS (ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURE) RULES

The 1999 Nigerian Constitution, under Chapter IV, provides for Fundamental Human Rights. These rights are basic rights, basic in the. sense that they are important to the existence and development of every human being. A whole Chapter enshrines these rights in the 1999 Constitution like all other previous Nigerian constitutions. These rights are not just ordinary rights. They are justiciable rights, and are rights that represent the collective visions, dreams and aspirations of the Nigerian people. “It is a right which stands above the ordinary Laws of the land and which in fact is antecedent to the political society itself. It is a primary condition to a civilized existence and what has been done by our Constitution since independence, starting with the independence constitution, the Nigeria (constitution) Order-in-Council 1960 up to the present Constitution, that is, the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria. 1979... is to have these rights enshrined in the Constitution so that the rights could be \"immutable\" to the extent of the non-immutability of the Constitution itself.