Therefore, the aforementioned documents show that the boxes containing smoked fish
transported in the applicant‘s 3 lorries did not present any threat to the national
security, public order, health or public morality.
Accordingly, this Court considers that the conduct of the defendant's agents, by
preventing the applicant from entering its national territory, by not being subject to the
exceptions provided for in Article 12 (2), since they were not even claimed by the
defendant, then constitutes a violation of the right of the applicant to free movement
of persons, goods and services guaranteed by Articles 13 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 12 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Articles 3 and
59 of (ECOWAS Revised Treaty (1993) and Article 2 (1) of the Protocol A/P.1/5/79 on
Free Movement of Persons, Residence and Establishment (1979).
The applicant intends, by the present action, to establish the civil liability of the
Defendant State for the damages he claims as a result of the unlawful conduct of its
agents.
It must therefore be ascertained whether the defendant State is to be responsible for the
acts of its servants.
The defendant State, as we have seen, is bound not only to respect the rights and
freedoms enshrined in the conventions to which it is a party, as well as to guarantee the
free and full exercise of such rights (obligations of respect and obligations of guarantee).
That is, the State can not perform any act that may violate guaranteed human rights,
but must still create all necessary means to prevent, investigate and even punish any
violation, public or private, of fundamental human rights, showing the objective facet of
such rights. (cf. Carvalho Ramos, in Responsabilidade Internacional por violação de
direitos humanos: seus elementos, a reparação devida e sanções possíveis: teoria e
prática do direito internacional; renovar, 2004 pag. 41."
This has been the position of this Court in several Judgments, in which it has emphasized,
in the area of human rights protection, the responsibility of Member States for noncompliance with obligations arising from international treaties or conventions signed
and ratified by them. - See Judgment ECW / CCCJ / Rul / 03/2010, delivered in the case
Peter David versus Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, (in CCJLR 2010 pag. 224 para. 41 to 47,
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