Nigerian lawyers have joined some countries and legal practitioners in suing China for their role in the global pandemic, Coronavirus which have claimed over 200,000 lives and over 2million people infected all over the world.
It’s claimed concealed information about coronavirus since November 2019, when the virus was first detected by a Chinese doctor.
A coalition of Nigerian legal experts has filed a class-action suit against the Peoples Republic of China over the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic effect on Nigerians.
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They are demanding $200 billion as damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption of the normal daily existence of people in Nigeria.”
A statement by the lead counsel, Prof. Epiphany Azinge (SAN), whose firm, Azinge and Azinge, is championing the action, said they had concluded pleadings for the class action against the Chinese government.
Azinge is a former Director-General of the Nigeria Institute of Legal Studies (NIALS) and a current member of the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal London, representing Nigeria and Africa.
He said “The team of legal experts planned a two-phase line of action-: first is with the federal high court of Nigeria and secondly to persuade the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to institute a state action against the Peoples Republic of China at the International Court of Justice at the Hague.
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“The legal experts will be claiming damages to the tune of 200billion dollars the Chinese Government will be served through its Embassy in Nigeria.”
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