because the 5th and 6th Respondents are individuals and not a state or community institution. 14. The Applicants filed a reply in response to the 1st-4th Respondents’ statement of defence and stated that, the attacks on their community is not an ethnic clash but unprovoked attacks by the Fulani Herdsmen who are not a tribe but deadly terrorist group. That the Agatu community has never attacked any Fulani Herdsmen nor their cattle neither does the community possess any form of weapon. That the victims of these attacks are hapless, helpless and unarmed civilians including women and children. 15. That the Respondents never published the findings of any investigating committee on Fulani Militants’ attacks on the Applicants and their communities nor have they taken any steps to implement any such report. That the names of the members of the purported committees which the Respondents claimed to have setup and their findings were never published. That the Respondents never deployed any security officials when all these attacks were carried out but rather after the attacks. Further that the Respondents have failed to provide security and stability in the Benue communities, thereby breaching its obligations and also allowing serious violation of human rights of the Applicants and members of their communities. ANALYSIS OF THE COURT ON PRELIMINARY OBJECTION. 16. In the cause of the hearing, the Respondents had raised a Preliminary Objection and formulated two issues for determination: • Whether from the totality of facts and evidence put forward by the Applicants, a cause of action has been disclosed to invoke the jurisdiction of this Court. • Whether the Respondents are proper parties to this suit. In the light of the fact that the Court had adjourned ruling on the Preliminary Objection to the Judgment, the Court will now analyze the facts as deposed to by both parties and their pleas in law. WHETHER FROM THE TOTALITY OF FACTS AND EVIDENCE PUT FORWARD BY THE PLAINTIFFS, A CAUSE OF ACTION HAS BEEN DISCLOSED TO INVOKE THE JURISDICTION OF THIS COURT. 8