Pacta sunt servanda

It's just a part payment, surely.

A compromise requires consensus directed at the settlement of the disputed obligation.

The evidential sequence of this matter is insufficient to justify the conclusion that Makhasela surrendered the balance it contended remained payable under the risk-based appointment.

An intention to extinguish an existing right is not likely inferred.

But By taking that position, I respectfully submit that the Supreme Court was wrong.

Because Nigeria has an international treaty obligation Article 26 and 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties contains a fundamental principle of international law called Pacta sunt savanda.

The Pacta sunt savanda principle simply means that a country cannot raise a limitation of its domestic system to defeat its international obligations.

By ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and by ratifying the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, Nigeria has assumed those treaty obligations as an international commitment.

Nigeria cannot raise an excuse to defeat those obligations.