Nigerian opposition member under immediate deportation threat

 

Adebayo Alabi, leading member of The Voice Africa Forum and the Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants to be deported to Nigeria!

Since his student days in the 80`s he has been an activist for democracy and human rights. During the human rights of early 1998, under the auspices  of the campaign he was arrested, detained and maltreated. In may 1998 he made his flight out of country and found himself in Germany. Today he still suffer a lot  from the physical and psychlogical assault on his health during the period of detention. He is to date a co-coordinator of The Voice Africa Forum and the caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants. He is also a critic for the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), an organisation representing the interests and rights og Yoruba people and people of Yoruba origin in diaspora. He has made all necessary efforts to provide the required documents but which have not been considered for a positive decision in his asylum application. The fake democracy in Nigeria

 

"The international community want to believe that with the return to democratic rule the unending crisis of the country will be resolved but this is far from reality. The numerative executive-legislative face off with the incessant abuse of executive power by the president Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo rtd., ethno-religious violence resulting in hundreds of deaths, the Army killings, rapes and occupation of towns and villages, increasing youth restiveness, perceived commercialisation of legislative practices and intemperative utterances from some elders and leaders of the society have already weakened the democratic hope. The stepping up of militant actions by the various ethnic organisations such as the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Sovereign Movement of Nigeria, Egbesu Meimbus, Arewa Peoples Congress (APC), the clamour of the people of the Middle-Belt for autonomy from the Northern stronghold; the Sharia debacle which so far had led to tens of hundreds of deaths leaving in its trail sorrows, tears and blood; the war between the Ijaw, Urhobo and Itsekiri resulting in unnessecary killings and destruction of property and social infrastructure, the Ife-Modakeke imbroglio which seems to defy all initiatives at brokering of peace; other agitations which come in the various calls for a sovereign national conference, nationalities conference, a confederated system of government are all too familiar indices to weak democratic structure which on some occasions the president had called for a state of emergency to be declared in volatile spots. The unending oppression of the people by the imposition of more stringent economic measures with astronomical increases in prices of petroleum products, electricity and water bills by an insensitive government does much to aggravate an already tensed security situation. The hydra-headed problems of identity and stability can not be an indication of a stable society. This is quite clear to the West but they are ignoring the realities. Conversely, accepting the realities and making positive contributions to finding lasting solutions will be beneficial to all concerned. (Adebayo Alabi)

 

His return to Nigeria is dangerous for him more so because of his exil political and human right activities in Germany. Despite all these his second application was quickly decided in the negative by the government office. Now his fate lies with the court.

 

Protest against the deportation of the Nigerian opposition member in exil Adebayo Alabi and ask the administrative court to recognise him as politically persecuted. Please write politely formulated letter or fax to the followings:

 

Administrative court Magdeburg

Schönbeckerstraße 67a

39104 Magdeburg

Fax: 0391-6067032

 

Interior Ministry of Sachsen-Anhalt,

Halbehrstädter Straße 2, 39112 Magdeburg,

Tel.: 0391/ 567 55 16, Fax: 0391/ 567 55 20

 

Government Office for the Recognition of asylum applications

Branch Office Halberstadt,

Friedrich-List-Str. 3,

38820 Halberstadt,

Fax: 03941/676 199;

 

Foreigners Office Hohenmölsen,

Landkreis Weißenfels,

Fax: 03444/143480

 

Please sent copy of your letter(s) to the address below:

 

Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants

c/o International Human Rights Association Bremen e.V.,

Wachmannstr. 81,

28207 Bremen,

phone: 0421-5577093, Fax: 0421-5577094, e-mail: mail@humanrights.de