Lawyers try to take Dos Santos case to Angola’s Constitutional Court
Luanda — Angolan lawyers who argue that President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’s billionaire daughter was illegally appointed as the CE of the state oil company, have applied for their case to be heard in the Constitutional Court. Angola’s Supreme Court on December 27 rejected an application by 12 human rights lawyers to have Isabel dos Santos removed as the head of Sonangol, which handles the oil and gas reserves of Africa’s largest oil exporter. The lawyers, who accuse the president of nepotism and violating Angolan probity law, asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow the Constitutional Court to hear an appeal against its ruling. "We have filed an extraordinary appeal at the Supreme Court, who transit the process to the Constitutional Court," said David Mendes, one of the attorneys. "Nobody should get advantage based on their origin." Mendes and the 11 other lawyers also argue that the seven months taken by the Supreme Court to come to a decision breaks guidelines on prompt rulings...
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