Press Release

The Prince And Princess Charles Offokaja Foundation (Nigeria) recently petitioned the African Commission On Human And Peoples Rights, ACHPR, over the Libya’s failure to bring up Haiti’s 2012 request to join the African AU Union for consideration and voting on the floor of the AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government.

Libya, the Member State that midwifed the formation of the AU, did not bring up the request, despite its obligation to do so under Article 22(2) of the African Charter On Human And Peoples Rights.

Prior to Libya’s omission, the African Commission, a creation of the AU Constitutive Act, blocked Haiti’s request from reaching the Assembly. This blockage violated Haiti’s rights under Article 29:2, of the AU Constitutive Act. By implication, this means that all other Afro American States have been unlawfully discouraged from applying for AU membership and by extension, membership in AU bodies like the African Continental Free Trade Area, ACFTA, the world’s biggest free trade area.

ARTICLES VIOLTATED
The foundation argued that after the African Commission violated Articles 9(c) and Article 29(2) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and Article 3(q) of the Protocol On Amendments To The Constitutive Act Of The African Union, by unlawfully blocking Haiti, Libya violated Articles 1, 22(1), 22(2), and 21(4) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights by not ensuring that Haiti’s request was considered and voted for by the Assembly.

The foundation, therefore requested that:

1. The African Commission For Human And Peoples Rights encourages and assists the Libyan Government to immediately request a meeting of the Assembly in which Haiti’s request for membership will be considered and voted upon.

2. The African Commission For Human And Peoples Rights encourages and assists Libya to immediately request a meeting of the Assembly in which the granting of Special Observer status to Diaspora representative organizations in the Assembly under the supervision of AU’s Citizens And Diaspora Directorate CIDO will be considered.

The organizations granted observer status within the framework of CIDO should represent where available the 3 periods of Diaspora migration, namely; the pre-slave trade period, the slave trade (Afro American) period, and the modern period.

3. That the African Commission on Human And Peoples Rights encourages Libya to attach the same importance it attached to midwifing the formation of the African Union in 1999 to this call to midwife the expansion, broadening and deepening of Diaspora roles in the continued building of the African Union.

For just as Libya proposed the formation of the African Union to prevent a recurrence of the Rwandan Genocide, [expansion of the Union to enable States and Representative Organization to Fully participate] will serve as a kind of healing balm for victims of another African Genocide, the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. It will take the observance of the African Charter to another glorious level.

The Foundation further calls on Libya to work in partnership with other African countries that may wish to champion the cause of right the wrongs done to Haiti, and by extension, the Afro American Peoples.

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Haiti, Papua New Guinea,The Peoples of The Adaman Islands, Jamaica, Brazil,Venezuela, Cuba must all be allowed to join the African Union.

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Haiti, Papua New Guinea,The Peoples of The Adaman Islands, Jamaica, Brazil,Venezuela, Cuba must all be allowed to join the African Union.

Asides, Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica- and to an extent, Venezuela- the rest do not qualify for even something as basic as an observer membership of the AU. It is that simple.

1. To start with, those guys- Papuans, Andamanese- are not even Africans in any way. A dark skin doesn't always amount "Africaness" or, properly put, "black Africaness". They are better off integrating fully with their kinsmen over there in Asia and Oceania.

2. Those Andamanese want absolutely nothing to do with "outsiders"- that is persons who are not from their sphere. They don't want anything to do with their immediate neighbours and foreigners alike for starters. So, what makes you think that they would want anything to do with your supranational organization- AU? Even trying to make any format of contact with the Andamanese/Sentinelese is a crime in itself under the Laws of India.

3. Let us learn to respect other nations' territorial integrity in the spirit of international cooperation, the Andamanese are Indian subjects. The Papuans- with the exception of the New Guineans- are citizens of Indonesia who are at loggerheads with the State of Indonesia, and as such any attempt to incorporate them into any sort of foreign international organization such as the AU would definitely be viewed with some iota of mistrust by the Indonesian States. And trust, me those guys are highly paranoid and there are many African countries with meaningful economic rapprochement with Jakarta- oil, trade. Now, you wouldn't want to hurt that.

4. As I have said and will continue to say from now till the very end of time, the Andamanese and Papuans ain't Africans! Disregard skin colour. There is absolutely no linkage between both sides, culturally, linguistically and otherwise.

Bring on the Haitians. They have shown more interest in becoming part and parcel of the AU than the rest who either suffer from an identity crisis(e.g. Afro-Venezuelans) or are simply non-Africans(Papuans).

Enough said. Top of the morning to y'all from here.