Community Court of Justice cannot give up its jurisdiction - ! in favour of a domestic court, on the assumption that local remedies shall be exhausted, since this is not a require111ent imposed on the victims to have access to the ECOWAS Court of Justice. In fact, what the Protocol on the Court establishes, in Article 10 Section (d) Subparagraph (ii), as an impedin1ent to the Court's jurisdiction is the fact that "the same 1natter has been instituted before another international court for adjudication". 75. Therefore, the circumstance that the matter is already pending not before an international court, but before national court, cannot be taken as an obstacle to the a ECOWAS Court jurisdiction. See, an1ong several cases, the :.( t ----·· decision in Suit no. ECW/CCJ/APP/07/11 Valentine Ayika V Republic of Liberia. 76. In applying the above decisions to the present case, the . Court holds that pendency of the suit before a domestic court cannot oust its jurisdiction to determine this case on alleged human rights violation. )(; / .7