Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana (SAN) had on Sunday explained why it will be difficult for aggrieved Nigerians, who are victims of slavery to sue the government of Libya.
Mr. Falana explained that unless the government deposits its declaration with the registry of the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights at the court’s registry in Arusa, Tanzania, it will be impossible for aggrieved citizens to achieve the quest for Justice over the atrocities done to them in Libya.
However, he gave the Federal Government till December 31 to deposit its declaration accepting the court’s jurisdiction.
According to Falana, “if this request is not granted before December 31, 2017, I will not hesitate to approach the Federal High Court for an order of mandamus to compel the Federal Government to deposit the declaration at the registry of the African Court with a view to empowering Nigerian citizens to secure the enforcement of their human rights in the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights”.
“The government should demand for payment of monetary damages by the Libyan government to the victims in view of the facts and circumstances of the illegal human trafficking in Libya.
“Libya has not formally accepted the jurisdictional competence of the African Court unless victims of the illegal slave trade could have submitted a petition to the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights”, he said.
The Senior Advocate noted that over the past 20 years, his law office had been inundated with complaints from Nigerians who were brutalised in some African countries.
“We, the embassy of Nigeria in Tripoli, Libya, have been doing our best to register Nigerians. We have visited the detention camps, and also, collaborated with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to repatriate migrants weekly.
“There are various camps in the regions of South, West and East of Libya. Camps in the other regions are known but inaccessible camps due to the challenges of going into these camps as a communication chain is required before we can reach them,”
The envoy also called for the provision of a bigger aircraft to evacuate Nigerians who have agreed to come back home and to better fund its embassy in Libya and send the aircraft. We have made our request for that,”.


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They went there freely. We should rather sue that jubril we have as president