7. After careful consideration the Court, in Ruling No. of the issues raised in the Preliminary Objections, ECW/CCJ/APP/07/10 delivered on 10 October 2010, ruled that the Plaintiff is a legal person and has the locus standi to institute this action. The Court also held that it has no jurisdiction over the 3 to 9" Defendants who are corporations and struck out their names in the suit. Consequently the Plaintiff on the 11° of March court an amended 2011 filed with the leave of application against the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and The Attorney General of the Federation. 10. On the 10" day of March 2011, the Defendants filed a joint statement of defence to the suit to which the Plaintiff replied on the 8" of July 2011. 11. Both The parties subsequently filed and exchanged Plaintiff for the first time attached written addresses of counsel. a copy of the Amnesty International report to its address and the Defendant objected to the admissibility of that report on the ground that it is too late The Court then asked both and not in accordance with the rules. parties to address it on the admissibility of the report and reserved its ruling for judgment. THE FACTS OF THE CASE 12. The Plaintiff contended that Niger Delta has an enormously rich endowment in the form of land, water, forest and fauna which have been subjected to extreme degradation due to oil prospecting. 13. It averrred that Niger Delta has suffered for decades from oil spills, which destroy crops and damage the quality and productivity of soil that communities use for farming, and contaminates water that people use for fishing, drinking and other domestic and economic purposes. That these spills which result from poor maintenance deliberate vandalism of infrastructure, human or theft of oil have error pushed and many a consequence people deeper of into 3|Page