by the Complainant before any recourse of the African Commission can be allowed. In determining this rule, the African Commission has stated that “the remedy must be available, effective and sufficient and a remedy is considered available if the petitioner can pursue it without impediment, and if sufficient it is capable of redressing the complaint2”. 38. The Complainant further submits that it is quite clear from the evidence set out in the Complaint that no good and sufficient remedy was available to the Applicants despite their engagement in a long and protracted judicial process, and as a result the Applicants have duly exhausted all the domestic remedies available to them in Ethiopia for the purpose of Article 56(5) of the African Charter. 39. The Complainant states that Article 56(6) of the African Charter has been fulfilled because the Communication is submitted within a reasonable time of their having exhausted local remedies. 40. The Complainant submits that the Communication has not been submitted to any other procedure of international investigation or settlement and as such has complied with Article 56(7) of the African Charter. Respondent State’s Submission on Admissibility 41. The Respondent State submits on the following two grounds: i. the Communication is incompatible with the Constitutive Act of the AU or with the African Charter 2 Communication 147/95,para 3 and 32. Dawda Jawara v The Gambia. 10