[Canada] Join the Call for the Return of the Vice President of American University of Nigeria and his Colleagues, abducted by SARS
Return the Vice President of American University of Nigeria and his Colleagues, abducted by SARS
- Assistant Vice President of Marketing & Recruitment at AUN — Sisiku AyukTabe
- Assistant Professor of Computing, Director of the Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, & Vice Chair of the Institutional Review Board at AUN — Dr. Fidelis Ndeh-Che
- Head of the Surgery Unit of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Ahmadu Bello University — Prof. Augustine Awasum
- Associate Professor of Geology, Ahmadu Bello University — Dr. Henry Kimeng
- Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Yar’adua University — Dr. Cornelius Kwanga
- Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Bayero University — Dr. Egbe Ogork
- Union organizer and Leader of the Teachers Unions & the Federation of Parent Teachers Union (CAPTAC) — Mr. Wilfred Tassang
- Human Rights lawyer and Legal Workers Organizer — Barrister Shufai Berinyuy
- Human Rights lawyer and Legal Workers Organizer — Barrister Eyambe Elias
- Civil Society leader — Dr. Nfor Ngalla Nfor
- Publicly and strongly condemn the blatant violations of the fundamental rights of AUN Vice President Sisiku AyukTabe and his colleagues.
- Publicly demand that Cameroon and Nigeria be blocked from accessing your tax money and other public support until they comply with their international human rights and humanitarian obligations as detailed in the March 1, 2019, Nigerian Federal High Court decision.
- Omoyele Sowore, Sahara Reporters
- Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA
- Dr. Uju Agomoh, Executive Director, Prisoners’ Rehabilitation And Welfare Action (PRAWA) and former Council Member National Human Rights Commission & Special Rapporteur Police, Prison and Detention Centre (Nigeria)
- Femi Falana, Esq, Human Rights lawyer, International Bar Association (IBA)
- Abdul Oroh, Esq, Executive Director, Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Nigeria
- Prof. Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University, USA
- Prof. Chris W J Roberts, Political Science, University of Calgary, Canada
- Prof. Matt Meyer, Senior Research Scholar, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Resistance Studies Initiative and Secretary General, International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
- Prof. Stellan Vinthagen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
REFERENCES:
1. Nigeria’s Police Brutality Crisis: What’s Happening Now
www.nytimes.com/article/sars-nigeria-police.html
2. 'This is a genocide': villages burn as war rages in blood-soaked Cameroon
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/may/30/cameroon-killings-escalate-anglophone-crisis
3. For the sake of Cameroon, life-president Paul Biya must be forced out
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/02/for-the-sake-of-cameroon-life-president-paul-biya-must-be-forced-out
4. UNHCR condemns forced returns of Cameroon asylum-seekers from Nigeria
www.unhcr.org/en-us/news/press/2018/2/5a731fcf4/unhcr-condemns-forced-returns-cameroon-asylum-seekers-nigeria.html
5. Amnesty International on Cameroon: Ten arrested Anglophone leaders at risk of unfair trial and torture if deported from Nigeria
6. US Department of State on the forcible return of refugees by Nigeria to Cameroon
www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/02/277988.htm
7. Rights groups condemn deportation of academics and others
www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20180221064526769
8. Nigerian High Court Ruling on the case of the forcibly return to Cameroon of the Vice President of American University of Nigeria in Yola, Sisiku AyukTabe, and his colleagues
ambazoniapocs.net/sites/default/files/NIgerianFederalCourtJUDGMENT%202.pdf