Monrovia - Over 2,000 residents of Fendall who were made homeless as the result of the demolition exercise carried out by the authority of the University of Liberia are to seek legal redress at the ECOWAS Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria. “We will not keep the peace while we are grieving, we need to proceed to the ECOWAS Court with this case,” said one of the aggrieved residents. “This government is heartless, if it did not want anyone to build here, we could have been notified but this did not happen, therefore let us proceed with our case to ECOWAS Court,” said another speaker while all of the speakers who spoke preferred the case going to the ECOWAS Court. Madam Viola Lincoln, the Chairperson for the affected Fendall residents told FrontPageAfrica after the meeting that proceeding to ECOWAS Court does not mean that they don’t respect the justice system in the country. “We have already filed a lawsuit for US$40m at Civil Law Court “A” at the Temple of Justice but we are proceeding to the ECOWAS Court for the violation of our rights under international laws,” said Madam Lincoln.

Source: Front Page Africa August 30, 2016 01:41 UTC