aforementioned, the Court finds that it has jurisdiction ratione personae. Preliminary objections on admissibility 49. The Respondent raises preliminary objections on admissibility based on different components of the requirements of Article 56 of the Charter. These are on incompatibility of the Application with the Charter and the Constitutive Act of the African Union, on nonexhaustion of local remedies and in the alternative thereto, that the Application has not been filed within a reasonable time from when local remedies were exhausted. I. Incompatibility of the Application with the Charter and the Constitutive Act of the African Union 50. The Respondent contends that the Application does not comply with the Constitutive Act of the African Union and the Charter as it does not address issues compatible with the Charter or the principles enshrined in the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity and further, that no provisions of the African Charter have been referenced in the Application. 51. The Applicant avers that he has met the requirements of Article 56(2) of the Charter which stipulate that applications must be compatible thereto. This is because, the Court has decided, in Application Number 003/2012 Peter Joseph Chacha v The United Republic of Tanzania that, so long as the rights alleged to have been 21

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