{"id":73623,"date":"2020-05-24T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=73623"},"modified":"2020-05-24T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:17:37","slug":"executive-rascality-serap-takes-wike-fg-to-ecowas-court-over-rights-violations-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/executive-rascality-serap-takes-wike-fg-to-ecowas-court-over-rights-violations-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Executive rascality&#8217;: SERAP takes Wike, FG to ECOWAS court over rights violations in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m3270\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">legal action against governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and the<br \/>\ngovernment of President Muhammadu Buhari at the ECOWAS Court of Justice<br \/>\nin Abuja over the &#8220;brutal crackdown, repression, and grave violations<br \/>\nand abuses of the human rights of the people of Rivers State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SERAP said in suit number ECW\/CCJ\/APP\/20\/20 filed last Friday: &#8220;Governor<br \/>\nWike is using COVID-19 as a pretext to step up repression and systematic<br \/>\nabuses against the people of Rivers state, including by carrying out<br \/>\nmass arbitrary detention, mistreatment, forced evictions, and imposing<br \/>\npervasive controls on daily life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to SERAP: &#8220;Governor Wike is using executive orders 1 and 6,<br \/>\n2020 as instruments to violate and abuse the rights to liberty and<br \/>\nfreedom from arbitrary arrest and detention, to a fair trial, and to<br \/>\nproperty, contrary to Nigeria&#8217;s international human rights obligations,<br \/>\nincluding under the African Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights and the<br \/>\nInternational Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SERAP said: &#8220;This suit is primarily against Governor Wike and the Rivers<br \/>\nstate government for failing to respect, protect and ensure the<br \/>\nconstitutionally and internationally guaranteed human rights of the<br \/>\npeople of his state. The governor has used executive orders 1 and 6 to<br \/>\nrun roughshod over the human rights of Nigerians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, the Federal Government, being the signatory to ECOWAS<br \/>\ntreaties and protocols, cannot escape its responsibility to ensure that<br \/>\nthe human rights guaranteed under human rights treaties to which Nigeria<br \/>\nis a state party, are fully and effectively realized throughout Nigeria,<br \/>\nincluding in Rivers state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suing the Federal Government alongside Governor Wike is entirely<br \/>\nconsistent with article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of<br \/>\nTreaties, which provides that a state may not invoke the provisions of<br \/>\nits internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SERAP is asking the court for an order of injunction to &#8220;restrain and<br \/>\nstop Governor Wike from further using, applying and enforcing executive<br \/>\norders 1 and 6 or any other executive orders to harass, arbitrarily<br \/>\narrest, detain and demolish property of the people of Rivers state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SERAP is also seeking an order directing &#8220;Governor Wike and the other<br \/>\ndefendants to pay adequate monetary compensation to the victims of human<br \/>\nrights violations and abuses, and to provide other forms of reparation,<br \/>\nwhich may take the form of restitution, satisfaction or guarantees of<br \/>\nnon-repetition, and other forms of reparation that the Honourable Court<br \/>\nmay deem fit to grant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suit filed on SERAP&#8217;s behalf by its solicitors Kolawole Oluwadare,<br \/>\nAtinuke Adejuyigbe and Opeyemi Owolabi, read in part: &#8220;SERAP contends<br \/>\nthat several people were arbitrarily arrested and detained in various<br \/>\npolice stations and isolation centres in Rivers State and without any<br \/>\nregard for due process of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governor Wike and his agents used, applied and enforced executive<br \/>\norders 1 and 6 to suppress and repress the human rights of the people<br \/>\nand business operators, including harassing, arbitrarily arresting,<br \/>\ndetaining, and torturing anyone found exercising their rights within<br \/>\nRivers State, all in the guise of enforcing measures to prevent the<br \/>\nspread of COVID-19 in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wanton destruction of people&#8217;s property, harassment, arrest, and<br \/>\ndetention of persons exercising their rights to personal liberty and<br \/>\nother human rights amount to an affront to the Nigerian constitution of<br \/>\n1999 (as amended) and the country&#8217;s international human rights<br \/>\nobligations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The executive orders, including executive order 6, by Governor Wike are<br \/>\ninvalid, illegal and unconstitutional, having not complied with the<br \/>\nrequirements of due process of law. The order by Governor Wike to<br \/>\ndemolish any hotel or guest house found operating in Rivers state is<br \/>\nultra vires the penalty stipulated in executive order number 6.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demolition of hotels and guest houses is illegal and unconstitutional,<br \/>\nas it runs afoul of the penalty stipulated in the Quarantine Act, which<br \/>\nprovides only a fine of N200 or imprisonment for a term of six months or<br \/>\nboth. The demolition is a blatant violation of article 14 of the African<br \/>\nCharter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governor Wike, demolition workers and security agents without due<br \/>\nprocess of law demolished Prudent Hotel, Alode in Eleme, and Etemeteh<br \/>\nHotel in Onne on Saturday, May 9, 2020, and fragrantly breached the<br \/>\nrights of the owners, employees and occupiers. The demolitions were<br \/>\nsupervised by Governor Wike in the company of security agents of the<br \/>\nFederal Government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SERAP contends that Governor Wike with the complicity or support of the<br \/>\nFederal Government of Nigeria carried out these demolitions without<br \/>\ngiving adequate notice, compensation, alternative hotel or affording the<br \/>\nvictims legal remedies. Many people have now been deprived of their<br \/>\nmeans of livelihood, employment and shelter, and exposed to other<br \/>\nserious human rights violations and abuses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SERAP is therefore seeking the following reliefs:<\/p>\n<p>A DECLARATION that the actions of the Defendants and their agents in<br \/>\nenforcing executive orders 1 and 6 to harass, arbitrarily arrest, detain<br \/>\nand demolish property of the people of Rivers state violate the human<br \/>\nrights guaranteed under Articles 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14 and 15 of the<br \/>\nAfrican Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Right, and relevant provisions of<br \/>\nother human rights to which Nigeria is a state party;<br \/>\nA DECLARATION that the provisions of executive orders 1 and 6 are<br \/>\ninconsistent and incompatible with the rights to personal liberty, fair<br \/>\ntrials, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, employment and to<br \/>\nproperty, guaranteed by the African Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217; Right<br \/>\nand the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right to which<br \/>\nNigeria is a state party;<br \/>\nAN ORDER of injunction stopping and restraining the Defendants and their<br \/>\nagents from further implementing and using the provisions of the<br \/>\nexecutive order 1 and 6 or any other executive orders whatsoever to<br \/>\nviolate and abuse the rights of the people of Rivers state guaranteed<br \/>\nunder international human rights treaties to which Nigeria is a state<br \/>\nparty;<br \/>\nAN ORDER directing the Defendants to immediately repeal and\/or amend the<br \/>\nexecutive orders 1 and 6 and any other executive orders in line with<br \/>\nNigeria&#8217;s obligations under international human rights treaties to which<br \/>\nthe country is a state party;<br \/>\nAN ORDER directing the Defendants and their agents individually and\/or<br \/>\ncollectively to respect, protect, promote, and ensure the human rights<br \/>\nof the people of Rivers state during and after the COVID-19 pandemic;<br \/>\nAN ORDER directing the Defendants and\/or their agents individually<br \/>\nand\/or collectively to pay adequate monetary compensation to the victims<br \/>\nof human rights violations and abuses by the Defendants, and to provide<br \/>\nother forms of reparation, which may take the form of restitution,<br \/>\nsatisfaction or guarantees of non-repetition, and other forms of<br \/>\nreparation that the Honourable Court may deem fit to grant;<br \/>\nSUCH FURTHER orders the Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the<br \/>\ncircumstances.<\/p>\n<p>No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched legal action against governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and the government of President Muhammadu Buhari at the ECOWAS Court of Justice&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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