A group of Nigerian lawyers have filed a class action suit against China, following the adverse effect of the Coronavirus pandemic on Nigerians.
The lawyers who are demanding $200 billion as damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption of normal daily existence of people in Nigeria", said they have concluded pleadings for the class action against the Chinese government.
The lead counsel, Prof. Epiphany Azinge (SAN) who is a former Director-General of the Nigeria Institute of Legal Studies (NIALS) and a current member of the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal London, representing Nigeria and Africa, disclosed they've planned a two phase line of action.
Azinge said;
“The team of legal experts planned a two phase line of action-: first is with the federal high court of Nigeria and secondly to persuade the government of Federal Republic of Nigeria to institute a state action against the Peoples Republic of China at the International Court of Justice at the Hague
“The legal experts will be claiming damages to the tune of 200billion dollars the Chinese Government will be served through its Embassy in Nigeria.”
Source: thenewsguru.com
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@edudzi, in nigeria, it is not the government that has taken china to court but a normal citizen just like you. My brother you can also do same in Ghana. You can hire a lawyer and fight the case out. Ahaaa, You can increase the cost of damages and compensation to 400 Bilion. You are a citizen and will not like to be a zombie go to court. In this case I will borrow the words of my general secretary "Any idi ot can go to court" Kwa sia bi nti. Talk is cheap, you sit down and just comment without thinking through, you think it is easy, hmmm
Is not going to work brothers stop bragging.
What is ghana doing apart from sitting down as zoombies and allowing chinese to continue with galamsey at the expense of locals, when we have a so called human rights lawyer