6. In December 2013, owing to the delay in the judicial procedure, Plaintiffs
forwarded a correspondence to the President of Sierra – Leone, on their claims, but
to no avail.
7. On 30th June 2014, Plaintiffs filed a case dated 2nd June 2014 at the Registry of
the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, and sought from the Court, the
following reliefs:
- A declaration that Defendants have violated their rights, notably their rights
to draw salary arrears, pension, and severance allowances due and owed
them, in total disregard for the provisions of the African Charter on Human
and Peoples’ Rights (articles 5, 7, 14 and 15), the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (article 23, paragraph 3) and the Constitution of Sierra Leone of 1991 (articles 20, 21 and23, paragraph), which guarantee human
dignity, the right to fair hearing, the right to own property and the right to
work in equitable and satisfying conditions;
- Consequently, an order that Defendants should pay them the understated
amounts of money:
- Le 17.177.644.816,00 together with accrued interests;
- Le 722.755.265,74 together with accrued interests, as allowances due and
owed them by the Sierra - Leone Airports Authority;
- Le 230.428.235 together with accrued interests, calculated from October
2009, till date, as compensation for the contributory pension to the NASSIT,
which is due to, and owed some of them;
- Enjoin Defendants to respect the instant laws of Sierra – Leone, by paying
them the sum of 24.900.000 USD, which represents the counterpart funding
from the defunct Sierra National Airlines Ltd, which is due and owed them;
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