The ECOWAS Court of Justice has mandated the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay the sum of 60 million naira in damages and compensation to Sunday Ayodeji, who was shot by a police officer in Kaduna State, North-west Nigeria. Mr Ayodeji had on 22 October 2020, been shot by a police officer named Abdullahi Mohammed, the resulting wound from the shot had led to an amputation of Mr Ayodeji's leg. In the course of the attack by the police, the gunshot victim had also had his car and the sum of #900,000 naira forcefully taken from him by the police.
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The ECOWAS Court in its judgement delivered on July 10 2023, held the Nigerian government responsible for the victim's torture and violation of his human rights. Mr Sunday Ayodele's case was said to have been handled pro bono by an international human rights organisation, Avocats Sans Frontieres France, popularly known as Lawyers without Borders (France) under the European Union and Agence française de Développement funded SAFE Project, which aims to end human rights violations of torture, extra-judicial killings and arbitrary detention in Nigeria.
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