Lawyers Without Borders Drags FG to ECOWAS Court

Avocats Sans Frontières France (ASFF), also know as Lawyers Without Borders, has filed an action at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja, seeking to stop the execution of the fifth inmate condemned to death in Edo State.

ASFF in a statement signed by its Head of Office, Angela Uwandu, stated that there was a renewed threat by the state Government to secretly execute the fifth inmate.
ASFF is asking the court to grant an immediate order for the release of Mr. Thankgod Ebohs, from detention or alternatively commute his death sentence to life imprisonment.

Ebohs was on June 24 taken to the gallows to be hanged but was later spared as it was discovered that he was sentenced to death by firing squad.

According to her, Eboh was sentenced to death in 1995 by a tribunal constituted under the military government, and not a regular court.

She argued that Eboh's substantive trial did not follow due process as required by the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments having been tried by a tribunal even when the offence could have been tried by a regular court.

According to her, the threat if carried out, would infringe on Eboh's fundamental rights as guaranteed under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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