concrete to secure his release and repatriation back to Liberia as required by
diplomatic intercourse.
6- He further stated that his arrest, trial and imprisonment for 135 years at USP
Florence ADMX located in Colorado, United States, runs contrary to ECOWAS
Convention on Diplomatic Privileges, immunities and Vienna Convention on
Consular Relations as well as the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights and the Constitution of Liberia.
7- The Plaintiff avers further that all Governments of the Defendants including the
Government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf are fully aware and placed on judicial
notice that the Plaintiff is a Citizen of Liberia and Consul General of Liberia. In spite
of this, administration after administration of the Republic of Liberia has only simply
acknowledged the foregoing facts, but has totally and absolutely done nothing to
secure his release and repatriation back to Liberia.
8- According to him, he avers that the States and Member Countries of the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have jurisdiction over their
nationals and in particular Consul General and Diplomats accredited and assigned
to foreign Countries to protect their rights and immunities from arbitrary arrest and
imprisonment by their receiving States. Since the Government of Liberia has done
nothing to protect his rights he brings this complaint.
9- The Plaintiff further avers that the privileges and immunities of a diplomatic agent
exempt him from the jurisdiction of the receiving States. Thus, the Plaintiff prays
the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice to take Judicial Notice of the foregoing
provision of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations cited supra, and forthwith
proceed to order the Government of Liberia to secure his release and repatriation
back to Liberia consistent with diplomatic requirements and intercourse.
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