The Federal Government has agreed to pay N88 billion as compensation to victims of the Nigerian Civil War in some affected states in the country.
This was the outcome of the consent judgment delivered by the ECOWAS Court of Justice in a case of negligence by the Federal Government to remove remnants of landmines and explosives from the civil war.
A consent judgment is issued when two parties agree to a settlement to end a lawsuit; the parties write up an agreement for the judge to sign.
The suit, filed by Mr Vincent Agu and 19 others against the Federal Government in 2012, had claimed that the government had failed to remove remnants of landmines and explosives since the end of the civil war in 1970.
They claimed that the lethal explosives had maimed, killed and destroyed innocent lives in their…
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