Establishme~t of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (hereinafter referred to as "the Protocol") on 16 August, 2005. It deposited on 10 March, 2011 a Declaration under Article 34(6) of the Protocol, accepting the jurisdiction of the Court to receive cases from individuals and Non-Governmental Organisations. II. SUBJECT OF THE APPLICATION 3. On 16 January, 2017, the Applicant filed a matter which was subsequently registered as Application No. 001/2017. The Application arises from engineering financial services the Applicant alleges to have provided to the Respondent State pursuant to an agreement for securing funds for the rehabilitation of the Accra and Kumasi Sports Stadia for the Confederation of the African Cup of Nations Tournament of 2008. 4. The Applicant alleges that, by not respecting the terms of the agreement regarding the afore-mentioned services, the Respondent State violated the following rights provided under the Charter: a) Enjoyment of rights and freedoms recognised in the Charter without distinction (Article 2 of the Charter); b) Equality before the law and equal protection of the law (Article 3 of the Charter);and c) 5. Right to fair trial (Article 7 of the Charter). In the course of the proceedings before this Court, on 4 July, 2017, the Applicant applied for Provisional Measures to order the Respondent State to stay the execution of a Judgment of 8 June, 2017 of the Supreme Court requiring him to refund Ghana Cedi 51,283,480.59 to the Respondent State, following a finding that the procurement process relating to which the payments were made for the services was unconstitutional. 2