37.The Court notes that it has jurisdiction to hear human rights violations
arising from provisions of the ACHPR and the ICCPR, which the
Applicant claims to be a victim of, as may have been perpetrated by
the Republic of Niger, a Member State of the Economic Community of
West African States (ECOWAS).
38.On the other hand, as regards the request before the Court, to
examine the legality or otherwise of the charges made against him by
the law-enforcement agencies of the Republic of Niger, the Court
recalls that as far as that specific request is concerned, there is a wellestablished case law of the Court according to which applications
brought against decisions of the national courts of Member States shall
be considered to be outside the remit of the powers of the Court.
39.The Court held so in Case Concerning Jerry Ugokwe v. Federal Republic
of Nigeria (7 October 2005).
40.In Case Concerning Al Hadji Hammani Tijani v. Federal Republic of
Nigeria and Others (28 June 2007), the Court was of the view that:
“Admitting this application will amount to this Court interfering in
the criminal jurisdiction of the Nigerian Courts, without justification”
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41.Similarly, in the judgment on Alimu Akeem v. Federal Republic of
Nigeria (28 January 2014), the Court recalled that: “It is trite that in
those cases where the subject-matter of the dispute essentially had
to do with a re-examining of judgments already delivered by the
domestic courts, the Honourable Court held that they be dismissed.”
42. Finally, in the judgment of CDS Rahama v. Republic of Niger (23 April
2015), the Court ruled that: “On the basis of the principle behind this
standpoint, it can be deduced that the requests of CDS Rahama
concerning the decisions of the local courts of Niger cannot be
granted, the reason being that the Court has no remit for examining
such decisions; and more generally, after decisions are made by the
domestic courts of Niger, the Court has no jurisdiction to examine
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