Human Rights In Nigeria

EDM number 889 in 1994-95, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 23/03/1995.

That this House is appalled by the continuing violations of human rights in Nigeria; notes that, despite the protestations of this House and the governments of other European countries and the United States, Chief MKO Abiola, the winner of the widely acclaimed free and fair election in June 1993, still remains in gaol unable to receive the crucial medical assistance he needs, that Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer and leader of the Ogoni people still remains in prison, and that General Olusegun Obasango and Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, both of whom are the leaders of the only military regime in Nigeria that fulfilled its promise of returning the country back to civilian rule in 1979, have been recently arrested; and calls on the Government of Nigeria to reverse these trends and to move rapidly to restore Nigeria to a civil democracy, to which all Nigerians, including the present regime, have pledged their support.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Ann Clwyd	23/03/1995	Cynon Valley		Proposed
Roger Berry	23/03/1995	Kingswood		Signed
Neil Gerrard	23/03/1995	Walthamstow		Signed
George Foulkes	23/03/1995	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed
Tom Clarke	23/03/1995	Monklands West		Signed
David Jamieson	23/03/1995	Plymouth, Devonport		Signed
Colin Pickthall	23/03/1995	West Lancashire		Signed
David Winnick	24/03/1995	Walsall North		Signed
Tony Banks	24/03/1995	Newham North West		Signed
Alan Duncan	24/03/1995	Rutland & Melton		Signed
Terry Davis	24/03/1995	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Tom Cox	24/03/1995	Tooting		Signed
Dennis Skinner	24/03/1995	Bolsover		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	27/03/1995	Islington North		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	27/03/1995	Leigh		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	27/03/1995	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Norman Godman	27/03/1995	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Janet Anderson	27/03/1995	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Hugh Bayley	27/03/1995	York, City of		Signed
Menzies Campbell	27/03/1995	Fife North East		Signed
Bill Michie	27/03/1995	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
William McKelvey	27/03/1995	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Robert Parry	27/03/1995	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Gordon Prentice	27/03/1995	Pendle		Signed
Ernie Ross	27/03/1995	Dundee West		Signed
Clive Soley	27/03/1995	Hammersmith		Signed
Keith Hill	27/03/1995	Streatham		Signed
John McAllion	27/03/1995	Dundee East		Signed
Paddy Tipping	28/03/1995	Sherwood		Signed
Paul Flynn	28/03/1995	Newport West		Signed
John Evans	28/03/1995	St Helens North		Signed
Jim Dowd	28/03/1995	Lewisham West		Signed
Jim Cunningham	28/03/1995	Coventry South East		Signed
John Cummings	28/03/1995	Easington		Signed
Keith Bradley	28/03/1995	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Alice Mahon	28/03/1995	Halifax		Signed
Lynne Jones	28/03/1995	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	28/03/1995	Cardiff Central		Signed
James Wray	29/03/1995	Glasgow Provan		Signed
Gerry Sutcliffe	29/03/1995	Bradford South		Signed
Mike Hall	29/03/1995	Warrington South		Signed
Jean Corston	29/03/1995	Bristol East		Signed
Richard Burden	29/03/1995	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Edward O'Hara	29/03/1995	Knowsley South		Signed
Helen Liddell	29/03/1995	Monklands East		Signed
Helen Jackson	29/03/1995	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Bill Etherington	30/03/1995	Sunderland North		Signed
Nick Harvey	30/03/1995	North Devon		Signed
Harry Barnes	31/03/1995	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Ken Livingstone	04/04/1995	Brent East		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	04/04/1995	Durham, City of		Signed
Win Griffiths	05/04/1995	Bridgend		Signed
Martyn Jones	18/04/1995	Clwyd South West		Signed
Audrey Wise	19/04/1995	Preston		Signed
Mike Watson	20/04/1995	Glasgow Central		Signed
Diane Abbott	27/04/1995	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
David Atkinson	10/05/1995	Bournemouth East		Signed
John McFall	11/05/1995	Dumbarton		Signed
Peter Pike	18/05/1995	Burnley		Signed
Derek Enright	Unknown			Withdrawn

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