'i~'~C~!~\\, 1 ACH PR t\ African Commission on '(rrrru5'1. Human Rights our Collective Responsibility Human and Peoples' Rights ii. In the alternative and addition to paragraph 8.1 supra, that the Constitutional Court set aside the order made under case number CCT162/2.019 and to enroll the matter for a proper hearing with oral arguments by those parties; iii. In the further alternative to paragraphs 8.1 and 8.2 supra, that either the Commission or as a referral to the African Court hears the matter under CCT162/2.019 as an institution, or Court, of Appeal in relation to human rights violations as prohibited by the Charter; iv. That it be declared that the State Partt; violated the human and peoples' rights of the main Complainants, and those represented In; LFN as its members, by utilizing practices in the SCA and Constitutional Court of the State ParhJ to selectively choose cases to proceed with hearings before them and to arbitrarily dismiss cases having constitutional and human rights merits; ADMISSIBILITY THE SUBMISSIONS FROM THE COMPLAINANT ON ADMISSIBILITY 35. The Complainants submit that they have adhered to all the conditions set out in Article 56 of the Charter on Admissibility. They submit that their Communication indicates the authors; is compatible with the Charter; is not written in disparaging or insulting language directed against the State Party and its institutions or to the AU; Is based on actual events experienced by the Complainants and not based on news disseminated through the mass media; has been sent after exhausting local remedies at the Constitutional Court; has been submitted within a reasonable period of only two (2) months from the time the Constitutional Court judgment was delivered and does not deal with any matter which has been settled by t<he State Party.1 36. The Complainants extensively argued that by being dismissed at the Constitutional Court, they exhausted all remedies and that any other alternative remedy suggested would not be effective. 2 THE SUBMISSIONS OF THE RESPONDENT STATE ON ADMISSIBILITY 1 Complainants' Observations on Admissibility & Merits, para 15 2 Complainants' Observations on Admissibility & Merits, para 16-20 SI Page The African Commission on Human and Pe 31 Bijilo Annex Layout. Kombo West Coast R Phone: (220) 230 4361 Fax: (2 l=m;1i l · ~ 11-h~ni1 llfrr)::efrir.~-