24. This Court had opportunity to apply the two latter provisions stated above in matters concerning the jurisdiction of the Court in the following cases namelyProfessor Etim Moses Essien v. The Republic of The Gambia and University of the Gambia Suit No. ECW/CCJ/APP/05/05 and decided on 14TH day of March 2007; and in Olajide Afolabi v. Federal Republic of Nigeria Suit No. ECW/CCJ/04, it held thus, " it is a well established principle of law that a Court is competent when it is properly constituted as regards its number and qualifications of the members of the bench, and no member is disqualified for one reason or another; and the subject matter of the case is within its jurisdiction and there is no feature in the case which prevents the Court from exercising its jurisdiction and the case comes before the Court initiated by due process of law and upon fulfillment condition precedent to the of any exercise of jurisdiction." 25. There is no doubt that the first arm of the condition precedent for assumption of jurisdiction in this case, as set out above and indicated in Olajide Afolabi's case supra is not in controversy but the issue relating to the subject matter of this suit. Is the subject matter within the ambit of the competence of this Court? By the combined effect of Article 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and Article 9(4) of the said Supplementary Protocol, the answer is in the affirmative in terms of form, in that, once the allegation in the application by the Applicant/plaintiff lodged in the Registry of the Court is a complaint on violation of human rights in any form or manner whatsoever, same would be held to be admissible for adjudication beforourt by virtue of the provisions of Ia: