THE ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has ruled that it has unfeterred jurisdictional power to entertain a suit initiated by the Registered Trustees of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against the Federal Government and six oil companies over an alleged degradation, violation of human rights and associated oil pollution in the oil rich Niger Delta. Although the court declined jurisdiction on the six oil companies joined as co-defendants- Chevron Oil Nigeria Plc; Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC); Elf Petroleum Nigeria Ltd; Exxon Mobil Corporation, Agip Nigeria Plc.; and Total Nigeria Plc., it declared that the government and its body, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) could be held accountable for human rights violations in the oil rich region.