the Court, is not obliged to exhaust local remedies before accessing the Court. (See also Musa Saidy Khan Vs The Republic of Gambia (2010) CCJ ELRP). In Kadijaton Mani Karaou Vs Republic of Niger, The Defendant (The Republic of Niger) raised a preliminary objection challenging the admissibility of the Plaintiffs’ application on the ground that non –exhaustion of local remedies on the one hand and that the case brought before the Court was pending before the National Courts of Niger, the Court held that there are no grounds for considering the non-exhaustion of local remedies as a lacuna which must be filled within the practice of the Court, for the Court cannot impose on individuals more onerous conditions and formalities than those expressly provided for by Community texts. To hold otherwise will tantamount to additional violation of the rights of such individuals. In dismissing the preliminary objection raised by the defendant (and rightly so in our considered view), the Court held that by the provision of this Article 10(d) (11) of the Supplementary Protocol of 2005, the Community lawmakers of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) intended to remain within the strict confines of what international practice has declared appropriate to abide by. That it is not the duty of this Court to add to the Supplementary Protocol condition(s) which are not provided for by the texts. 12