Kogi indigenes ask ECOWAS court to halt killings

  Indigenes of Kogi State have filed a case before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice, demanding the enforcement of the fundamental rights of the people following incessant killings. The suit was filed by Ambassador Ali Ocheni, Hajiya Rekiya Abaji, Dr Sebastine Abuh and Dr Ojoachele Akor Felix through their […]

 

Indigenes of Kogi State have filed a case before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice, demanding the enforcement of the fundamental rights of the people following incessant killings.

The suit was filed by Ambassador Ali Ocheni, Hajiya Rekiya Abaji, Dr Sebastine Abuh and Dr Ojoachele Akor Felix through their counsel, Festus Ogwuche against the federal government.

The applicants are asking the court to make a provisional order, detailing or directing the federal government to take immediate interim measures for a special security intervention in Kogi State, as well as a full, comprehensive and elaborate consideration of the effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness of the current security outfits on ground in the state towards a re-arrangement that will efficaciously protect lives and property, and the preservation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of the state pending the determination of the substantive application enforcing human rights.

They also want the court to make an order for provisional measures directing the defendant to report the details of the measures undertaken by it, pursuant to this order, with an update of subsequent provisional measures it undertakes in respect of the provision of security, and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Kogi State, immediately upon the making of this order pending the determinations of the substantive application.

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They said the order has become imperative due to the growing incidence of “violent killings, abductions, destructions, invasions of communities, perpetrated by thugs, some security officials at the instance of state actors, which have reached alarming levels and which the defendant is lukewarm and unconcerned about.”