By Yusuf Olukokun

The Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) court of justice has rejected Sambo Dasuki, former National Security Adviser’s application, demanding that the court should pronounce his detention by Nigerian Government as illegal, unlawful and a breach against his fundamental human rights.

While delivering judgement on the application filed by Dasuki in Abuja, Sengu Koroma, the judge reporter, legally ruled out the application, stating assertively that the court lacks decisive jurisdiction to enforce or entertain any application against any earlier judgement.

Recalled that Sambo Dasuki, the former National Security Adviser, filed an application before the court which was marked ECW/CCJ/JUD/23/16, where he notified the court honourably that Friday Nwoke, a presiding judge, had already pronounced Nigerian government’s action against him as “arbitrary, unlawful, a mockery of democracy and the rule of law, and a violation of local and international rights to liberty.”

However, Koromo lucidly hammered on the procedures guiding the ECOWAS court of justice regarding judgement on enforcement as stated by its community law.

The court said: “Having thoroughly assessed the claims and constitutive texts of the court, it lacks the competence to adjudicate the present claim.”