The ECOWAS Court has dismissed an application filed by a Nigerian, Chukwuemeka Edeh, seeking five million naira in damages for alleged unlawful detention and torture by the defunct Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS.
The petitioner had approached the court with an application praying for the enforcement of his rights and a default judgment against Nigeria following the government’s failure to defend the case. Delivering judgment, however, the three-member panel of the court, presided over by Justice Ricardo Gonçalves, read by Justice Edward Asante with Justice Dupe Atoki as a member, dismissed the applicant’s claim of default judgment.
According to him, this was notwithstanding the fact that the court had jurisdiction over the matter and that the application was admissible, having complied with relevant requirements in the Protocol of the Court.
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