By Umaru Fofana
The case of Sierra Leone’s sacked Vice President at the ECOWAS Court suffered a setback on Tuesday, according a source at the court’s registry in Abuja.
“The team of lawyers for Mr Samuel Sam-Sumana got turned away to perfect the process of filing at the court”, the source who cannot be named told Politico via Whatsapp.
“They will be back after perfecting the documents based on the rules of the court”, the source adds.
They would not say when the team would return or how long it would take for the process to be completed.
But the lead attorney for Mr Sam-Sumana, Dr Raymond Atuguba, told Politico that “the filing took longer than expected” assuring it would be completed on Wednesday morning.
The lawyers had gone to the court on Tuesday to challenge ”violations of the human rights of His Excellency Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana on account of his unlawful removal from the office of Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone,” according to a statement.
They want the ECOWAS Court to declare his removal from office as illegal and to “order Sierra Leone to take the necessary steps in remediation of the several rights violations”.
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Photo: ECOWAS Court Members
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