14. Within the same line of thinking, Plaintiffs/Applicants recall that the common law that is the law subscribed to by the State of Sierra – Leone provides that it is obligatory upon an employer to pay settle any severance pay within reasonable period. They add that the worse scenario is that the refusal to pay severance allowances under reference, apart from being a cruel and degrading act, was likely to have infringed upon the human dignity of their persons (Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.) 15. Also, Plaintiffs/Applicants allege the violation of Article 7 of the said Charter, because their right to be heard by an independent, impartial court, and within reasonable period, was disregarded. This is because according to them, the liquidator, who is supposed to represent the interest of Sierra National Airlines, and its creditors (among whom are Plaintiffs /Applicants in the instant case), equally represents the first Defendant, because his nomination and representation before the national courts of Sierra – Leone were by the leave of the first Defendant; 16. Finally, Plaintiffs/Applicants allege the violation of Articles 5, 7, 14 and 23 of the Universal declaration of Human Rights, and Articles 20, 21 and 23 of the Constitution of Sierra – Leone of 1991, all of which guarantee the safeguard of human dignity, the right to fair hearing, the right to own property, and the right to work in equitable and satisfying conditions; 17. Whereas on their own part, Defendants, namely the State of Sierra – Leone and the Sierra National Airlines, through their Counsel, seek the setting aside of all the claims made by Plaintiffs/Applicants, by arguing that they (Plaintiffs/Applicants) did not avail the Court of any tangible proof, whatsoever, for a human rights violation, within the purview of the international legal instruments that they relied on; 7