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The Prince and Princess Charles Offokaja Foundation Nigeria and the Prince and Princess Charles Offokaja Foundation Switzerland have filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian Government over its failure to create a sixth state in its South Eastern geopolitical zone in order to bring it up to par with the other geopolitical zones of Nigeria.
According to the NGOs this is contrary to the Principle of Equality and Non Discrimination, and contrary to Nigeria’s obligation to ensure the right to Development.
The North West has 7 states, while Four other geopolitical zones, the South West, South South, North Central and North East have 6 states each. Only the South East is left with 5 states.
The Plaintiffs’ application in the suit reads, “This failure of the Defendant has led to marginalization of the People of the South East in terms of access to resources for Development: in the allocation of funds for Development from the Federation Account; in the number of Senate seats allocated to the South East; and in the number of statutory seats allocated to the South East at the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
“The Plaintiffs contend that this distinction is arbitrary, discriminatory and amounts to a violation of the principle of Equality and Non Discrimination, and is a violation of the right to Equality under Article 19 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as the African Charter).
“As a result of this failure to create a 6th state in the South East to bring it up to par with the other geopolitical zones, the Defendant has also violated the right to Development of the People of the zone under Article 22 of the African Charter.”
The Plaintiffs are asking for, among other things, an order compelling the Defendants to create a sixth state in the South East with 1 year.
The Prince and Princess Charles Offokaja Foundation Nigeria and Prince and Princess Charles Offokaja Foundation Switzerland have sued the Nigerian Government at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice over the non-completion of the Dasin Hausa Dam, which has caused massive loss of lives and property from flooding each time Cameroon opens its Lagdo Dam to release excess water.
The Dasin Hausa Dam was designed to act as a shock absorber to flood waters flowing from Cameroon’s Lagdo Dam into Nigeria each time Cameroon opens up its Lagdo Dam to release excess water.
Cameroon’s Lagdo Dam was constructed from 1977 to 1982. But Nigeria’s Dasin Hausa Dam on the Nigerian side has inexplicably been under construction since 1982, currently for a total of 41 years in 2023.
And this delay in building it has led to loss of lives and property, particularly in the floods of 2012 and in 2022.
In those years, the massive flood waters faced no barrier, and submerged many communities in many states from River Benue Basin to Anambra, to the Niger Delta before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the Plaintiffs’ initial application in the suit (ECW/CCJ/APP/25/23), apart from serving as a barrier against floods, the dam would have been capable of providing irrigation to about 150,000 hectres of land for agriculture, hold thousands of tons of fish, and also provide about 300 mega watts of electricity if it had been completed.
The NGOs are particularly asking the court to order the Government to complete an updated version of the dam within 18 months of judgement, in order to forestall further loss of life and property from flooding.
They are also asking the court to ensure that the dam works optimally in the face of Global Warming.
No date has been fixed for hearing.
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.