“44. The Court must place it on record that member states have a duty to expedite investigations when they confiscate money based on reasonable suspicion that strangers entering their territory are carrying money for criminal purposes, or the money is the object of money laundering or otherwise illegally obtained. The investigations should be conducted within a reasonable time in the light of the facts and circumstances of the case in order not to place such persons who may eventually be found innocent in undue hardship. Given the facts and circumstances of this case, the time lapse of over four years between the confiscation of the money and conclusion of investigations was unduly long.” — Ayika v Liberia (2012) – ECW/CCJ/JUD/09/12
Attorney General of Kaduna State v. Hassan () 2 N.W.L.R. (pt 8) 483, 524-525: “The legal concept of standing or locus is predicated on the assumption that no court is obliged to provide a remedy for a claim in which the applicant has a remote, hypothetical or no interest.”