to many. But in its application and through the whole proceedings, the Plaintiff failed to identify a single victim to whom the requested pecuniary compensation could be awarded. 115. In any case, if the pecuniary compensation was to be granted to individual victims, a serious problem could arise in terms of justice, morality and equity: within a very large victims that deserve compensate amount population, what compensation? would Why be the criteria compensate to identify the someone and not his neighbour? Based on which criteria should be determined the each victim would receive? Who would manage that one Billion Dollars? 116. The meaning of this set of questions is to leave clear the impractibility of that solution. In case of human rights violations that affect indetermined number of victims or a very large population, as in the instant case, the compensation shall come not as an individual pecuniary advantage, but as a collective benefit adequate to repair, as completely as possible, the collective harm that a violation of a collective right causes. 117. Based on the above reasons, the prayer for monetary compensation of one Billion US Dollars to the victims is dismissed. 118. The Court is, however, mindful that its function in terms of protection does not stop at taking note of human note of human rights violation. If it were to end in merely taking rights violations, the exercise of such a function would be of no practical interest for the victims, who, in the final analysis, are to be protected and provided with relief. Now, the obligation of granting relief for the violation of human rights is a universally accepted within the limits of its prerogatives when principle. The Court acts indeed it indicates for every case brought before it, the reparation it deems appropriate. 119. In the instant case, in making orders for reparation, the Court is ensuring that measures are indicated to guide the Federal Republic of Nigeria to achieve the objectives sought by Article 24 of the Charter, namely to maintain a general satisfactory environment favourable to development. 28|Page