bal To lodge her complaint, the Applicant relies on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Revised Treaty of the ECOWAS, the Supplementary Protocol (A/SP.1/01/05) and the Rules of the Court. £2, Upon service of the originating Application on the 15t, 274, 3rd and qth Defendants, they all lodged together a Defense dated 13" December, 2010 raising objections to the Application on the following grounds: a) Lack of legal capacity to undertake the said action. b) Lack of interest to undertake this action. The Defendants on the 1st ground of objection submit that the Application should be dismissed for lack of legal capacity as she is not a staff. 14. They cite Article 73 of the ECOWAS Staff Regulations and Articles 9(2) and 10(c) of the Supplementary Protocol (A/SP.1/01/05) to submit that the Court would recognize the right of recourse of staff of ECOWAS institutions, agencies or persons who enter into contractual relationship with ECOWAS Institutions resulting into violations. 15. They state that the Applicant is not a staff of any ECOWAS Institution, and had failed at the said interview four (4) years before, thus a real third party to the therefore does administration not have any of the ECOWAS locus standi Court of Justice to institute the and present application. 16, Finally, on this note, the Defendants raise the 2>4 objection being the lack of interest to undertake this action on the following grounds: a) The Applicant failed at the interview.