FG To Pay N88bn As Damages To Civil War Victims.

 An out of court settlement application for a case involving the federal government and nine victims of the Nigerian civil war has been granted by the ECOWAS court on Monday.

The terms of the settlement obtained by TheCable newspaper stipulates that the federal government “undertakes to pay, without delay, compensation in the sum of N50 billion in full and final sum to the victims, their families and communities as contained in Schedule 4(1) to this terms of settlement.


That FG undetakes to pay a total sum of N38 billion as contained in schedule 4(2) to this terms of settlement for the purposes of carrying out rebuilding of public buildings, mine centre activities, construction of class rooms, provision of prosthetics and all other activities enumerated thereunder.

In 2012, hundreds of mine victims of the war had dragged the federal government before the ECOWAS court, asking for an order for the removal of remnants of war instruments stockpiled in 11 states of the south-east, south-south and part of the north-central.

The instruments are said to include life bombs, abandoned unexploded ordnances (AXO), unexploded ordnances (UXO) and the explosive remnant of war (ERW).