DECISION: The Court adjudicating in a public sitting after hearing the parties in last resort after deliberating according to law: i. AS TO JURISDICTION; Declares the case admissible and it has jurisdiction to entertain same. ii. AS TO THE MERITS DECLARES: i. That the killing of the Applicant’s son, Cadet EL Shaddai Zishindung Kwasu by the officials of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), an Institution of the Defendant and thus, its agent, through drowning at Kangimi Dam in Kaduna Nigeria on the 30th of --2015 is illegal and amounts to unlawful killing, arbitrary deprivation of life and thus a violation of Article 4 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. ii. That the failure of the Defendant to investigate and prosecute those involved in the killing of the Applicant’s son is illegal and a violation of Article 4 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. DIRECTS: 28

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