The Registered Trustees of the Socio-Economic Rights &
Accountability Project (SERAP) have dragged the Federal Government to the
ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja over “immense suffering of Internally Displaced
Persons across the country”. Joined as defendant is the Attorney General of the
Federation, Mohammed Adoke.
In suit ECW/CCJ/APP/15/15 filed last week by solicitor to
SERAP, the Plaintiff alleged “serious violations by the Defendants of the human
rights of Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs’) to life, to health, to adequate
housing, to personal integrity, to privacy, to fair trial, to freedom of
movement and residence, to judicial guarantees, to private property and child
rights guaranteed by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the
African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally
Displaced Persons in Africa; and
Principles 1-30 of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement,”
according to Premium Times.
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