years now. The Respondent states that this Application was filed and registered by the Registry of the Court on 25 January 2019, which is more than the mandatory three years within which to initiate an action against the Respondent as required by the provision of Article 9(3) as referred above. 61.Consequently, they content that the above referred Article mandates an action for violation of human rights to be commenced within three years of the alleged cause of action. They submit that the issue of statute bar is a jurisdictional matter and where a Court lacks jurisdiction it lacks requisite powers to entertain same. They therefore urge the Honourable Court to resolve this issue in their favour and so hold. Applicant’s response 62.The Applicants in their response to the objection of the Respondent that the Application is statute barred submitted that the violations of their rights are continuous in nature. That the conditions of inmates on death row in Nigerian Prisons is below standard and the living condition of death row inmates have diminished inmates’ sense of humanity which depreciates daily while waiting to be executed. 63.Secondly, the Applicants submit that they have continued to suffer continuous violations of their rights, and undergo torture and extremely inhuman conditions on a daily basis. They have lived daily in fear not knowing when and at what time they would be executed. This has made them to develop high blood pressure and other serious medical conditions. 20