Nigeria: Rights Group Petitions Yar'Adua Over Citizens in Equatorial Guinea

14 September 2009

Yenagoa — Civil rights activists in the Niger Delta region yesterday sent a Save-Our-Soul message to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and the National Assembly over rising tension in Malabo, the capital city of the central African country, Equatorial Guinea, over alleged cases of human rights abuse, inhuman deportation and killing of a Nigerian, Akeem Jimoh, by three policemen over his refusal to allow a forceful take-over of his business.

The activists, under a group known as Civil Rights and Human Dignity (CRHD), based in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, also alleged that a shipment of 400 immigrants illegally arrested by the officials of Equitorial Guinea have been sent to Nigeria through the Calabar Port without the knowledge of immigration and foreign office in Malabo.

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