Nigeria, March 24 -- Emma Glassco, the suspended Director General of Liberia's National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA), has sued the Liberian government for US$10million as compensation for her alleged unlawful suspension by President Joseph Boakai's administration.

Ms Glassco, 39, sued the Liberian government on Monday at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria, the regional court accessible to West African citizens to seek redress for human rights violations.

The suit, marked: ECW/CCJ/APP/19/25, was filed by Ms Glassco's team of lawyers led by a former Chief Justice of Liberia, Kabineh Ja'nneh, and Sayma Cephus.

The applicant told the ECOWAS Court that she was arbitrarily suspended from office in February by Presid...