The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched a legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari government and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. SERAP dragged them to the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over the \u201cbrutal crackdown, repression, and grave violations and abuses of the human rights.' The body, in suit number ECW\/CCJ\/APP\/20\/20, accused
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has launched a legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari government and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.
SERAP complained that Wike was using Executive Orders 1 and 6, 2020 to abuse the rights to liberty and freedom, contrary to Nigeria’s international obligations, including under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. SERAP explains that suing the federal government alongside Wike “is entirely consistent with article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which provides that a state may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.”
The suit filed on SERAP’s behalf by its solicitors, Kolawole Oluwadare, Atinuke Adejuyigbe and Opeyemi Owolabi, said the, “wanton destruction of people’s property, harassment, arrest, and detention of persons exercising their rights to personal liberty and other human rights amount to an affront to the Nigerian constitution of 1999 and the country’s international human rights obligations.”
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