Nigeria, March 24 -- Nigerian human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, on Wednesday, filed a motion to the ECOWAS Commission praying that a sanction be imposed on Cape Verde for snubbing its regional court's judgement.

The ECOWAS court, in a March 15, 2021 judgement, ordered Cape Verde to release of the detained Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, and pay him $200,000 compensation for his controversial detention on the West African Island.

The court , having established that his arrest was carried out without the existence of an INTERPOL red notice and an arrest warrant, also directed the country not to extradite him to the U.S. as being planned.

But the Cape Verdean Supreme Court subsequently approved Mr Saab's extradition to the U.S. in disrega...