Justice Micah Wilkins, a former Vice President, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice says human rights abuse remains a major challenge in West African countries.Wilkins said this at the Human Rights Fiesta organised by the Citizens Advocacy for Social and Economic Rights (CASER) to mark the 2018 human rights day in Abuja on Tuesday.

According to him, the ECOWAS Court has many mandates, but the human rights mandate is the most significant.

“Other aspects of the work that we are doing are not as much as the human rights mandate because 98 percent of the cases we get involve violation of human rights across West African states.