The ECOWAS Court has dismissed an application filed by former National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, praying the court to compel the Nigerian government to enforce its judgment delivered in his favour on October 4, 2016.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the court had, in the judgment, declared Dasuki’s arrest and detention by the Nigerian government unlawful and a violation of his rights. Justice Sengu Koroma, the Judge Rapporteur, while delivering judgment in Abuja on Dasuki’s application for enforcement of fundamental rights, dismissed it on the ground that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain or enforce the earlier judgment.
The court had further held that the government’s action violated Dasuki’s rights under the African Charter of Human and People’s Rights, ACHPR, and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, ICCPR. It, therefore, ordered the release of all the seized properties of the applicant, as well as the payment of N15, 000,000 damages to him.
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