{"id":378031,"date":"2017-11-27T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=378031"},"modified":"2017-11-27T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:20:59","slug":"ecowas-court-declares-2015-removal-of-sierra-leone-veep-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/ecowas-court-declares-2015-removal-of-sierra-leone-veep-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS court declares 2015 removal of Sierra Leone Veep illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has declared as illegal the 2015 removal of Sierra Leone’s Vice President, Samuel Sam-Sumana from office, by the country’s President, Ernest Koroma.<\/p>\n
Today, Monday, November 27, the court ruled that Vice President Sam-Sumana’s fundamental human rights to fair hearing and to participate in politics, as guaranteed by the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights were violated.<\/p>\n
The Court dismissed, in from the start, the argument of Sierra Leone to the effect that the ECOWAS Court had no jurisdiction to hear the case.<\/p>\n