A Port Harcourt-based constitutional lawyer and rights activist, Chief Festus Oguche and 24 other lawyers have jointly dragged the Nigerian government and those of 14 other African nations before the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, otherwise known as ECOWAS Court. The application No. ECW/CCJ/APP/33/23 and filed on August […]
A Port Harcourt-based constitutional lawyer and rights activist, Chief Festus Oguche and 24 other lawyers have jointly dragged the Nigerian government and those of 14 other African nations before the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, otherwise known as ECOWAS Court. The application No.
They further held that the ensuring killings, deaths and humanitarian conditions as well as human rights violations that will engulf the entire African Sub-Region, which will result to untold hardships of the people and members of the Economic Community were equally considered as part of the reasons for the suit.
“The recognition and adherence of the fundamental principles of ECOWAS adopted in Abuja on July 6, 1991, for the maintenance of good regional peace, stability and security through the promotion and strengthening of good neighourliness, peaceful settlement of dispute among member states for a peaceful environment, recognition, promotion and protection of human and people’s rights in accordance with the provisions of the African Charter and prohibition of the use of force in all engagements among...
“The defendants are signatory to the Supplementary Protocol amending the protocol relating to the Community Court of Justice. The planned invasion was received with wild protests by the wider population of Niger Republic citizens, resulting to further threats from the Niger Republic, harassment, intimation against the citizens of the countries that are planning the invasion.”
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