Elshadai was a 19-year old cadet at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), who drowned during the watermanship training at the academy, on April 30, 2015.
Premium Times reports that the court ordered the government to pay $75, 000 to the family of the deceased for alleged violation of the deceased right to life.
It also mandated the government to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of the cadet and take punitive actions against those responsible.
The case against the federal government and the NDA was instituted by father of the deceased cadet, who approached the court to demand the invocation of relevant sections of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the grounds of alleged violation of his child’s right to life.
But counsel to the federal government had contended that the family of the deceased had signed a prior agreement consenting to possible negative effects of the exercise, wherein they (Mr Kwasu’s family) agreed to understand any hazards that the program could result in.
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