ECOWAS Court blames FG for Agatu killings
The Community Court of the Economic Community of West African State has found the Nigerian government guilty of failing in its duty to protect the human rights of members of Agatu Community in Benue State, who were attacked and killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
In the lead judgment by Justice Dupe Atoki, the court also ordered the government to provide adequate security by deploying more security personnel to the ‘area to protect the Community and prevent further occurrences of that mayhem.’ The court had earlier rejected the argument of the defendants contesting the locus of the plaintiffs by holding that the law recognizes the right of individuals and corporate bodies who are not victims to bring an action in a representative capacity under the principle of actio popularis.
The Solicitor General of the Federation, Dayo Apata, who represented the defendants had blamed the crisis that engulfed the State and its environment on ethnic differences between the Agatu community and the Fulani community over farming and rearing of animals as has been established by various panels of enquiry set up at different times in a bid to proffer solution.
Listed as defendants are the President of Nigeria, the Inspector General of Police, the Chief of Army Staff and the Minister of Internal Affairs, who plaintiffs accused of violating their fundamental human rights.
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