The Prince & Princess Charles Offokaja Foundation, Switzerland and the Prince and Princess Charles Offokaja Foundation Nigeria have dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria to the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice asking the court to compel Nigeria to ensure consideration of Haiti’s application to join the African Union which has been unattended to since 2016.
The NGOs are also asking the court to compel the Federal Government to provide (dual) citizenship to Afro Americans from Afro American Minority Countries who want to participate Fully in the building of the African Union.
The suit is marked ECW/CCJ/APP/ 54/22. In a statement on the suit, the Plaintiffs averred that the Afro Americans, (Haitian Afro Americans included) are the only Africans of the African Diaspora who are not members of an AU Member State.
“Despite instruments that provide for a possibility for their membership, they are arbitrarily excluded.”
No date has been chosen for hearing.
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