By RFIPublished the 31-10-2019Modified on 31-10-2019 at 20:04
In Abuja, four judges of the ECOWAS Court of Justice deliver their judgment in the Hama Hamadou case. His complaint is out of order, the court said on Wednesday.
The former president of the National Assembly of Niger had indeed filed a petition in April 2017 for violation of human rights. He had been sentenced by his country's judiciary to one year in prison, accused of having participated in international trafficking in babies . A punishment he never did. The unfortunate presidential candidate of 2016 has been in exile in France for 3 years.
A few weeks after being sentenced to one year in prison by the Niamey Court of Appeal in mid-March 2017, Hama Amadou and his lawyers filed a petition with the ECOWAS court of justice for human rights violations. A new legal battle is taking place. The lawyers hope that the opponent's conviction will be reviewed. Hama Amadou also claims in his motion more than 3 billion FCFA in damages.
But this Wednesday, the four ECOWAS judges rejected Hama Amadou, ruling his complaint inadmissible. For his lawyer, Mr François Serres, the Court did not do justice. " It relied on an old request rejected in 2016 without commenting on the new human rights violations committed since 2016 ". For him, this procedure is " a political assembly having no other objects than to eliminate Hama Amadou in the next presidential race ."
For the time being, the opponent's counsel did not communicate on the judicial consequences envisaged.
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