The Ogunwobi Family

EDM number 1347 in 1993-94, proposed by Diane Abbott on 20/06/1994.

That this House notes with deep concern the plight of Sunday Ogunwobi, a respected church leader and school governor and his family ofa wife and three children who are in sanctuary in Downs Baptist Church, Hackney, having been under notice of deportation since 16th March 1994, despite living 13 years in the United Kingdom; notes the deep concern shown by many members of the local community at the deeply damaging effect any removal to Nigeria will have on the health and education of the family's children; welcomes Hackney Council's unanimous all-party vote to support the family; notes the support given to the family's case by local church leaders such as the Bishop of Stepney and national church leaders like Reverend David Coffey, General Secretary of the Baptist Union; deplores any suggestion of breaking into the church; notes the warnings of the damage to community relations of any such suggested action; and in the International Year of the Family, calls on the Government to exercise compassion and discretion in the matter and lift the deportation order and grant indefinite leave to remain.

This motion has been signed by a total of 91 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Diane Abbott	20/06/1994	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Proposed
Hugh Bayley	21/06/1994	York, City of		Signed
Harry Barnes	21/06/1994	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	21/06/1994	Islington North		Signed
Eric Clarke	21/06/1994	Midlothian		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	21/06/1994	Blyth Valley		Signed
Alan Meale	21/06/1994	Mansfield		Signed
Alice Mahon	21/06/1994	Halifax		Signed
Rachel Squire	21/06/1994	Dunfermline West		Signed
Bill Michie	22/06/1994	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	22/06/1994	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Derek Enright	22/06/1994	Hemsworth		Signed
Mike Hall	22/06/1994	Warrington South		Signed
John Battle	22/06/1994	Leeds West		Signed
Ken Livingstone	22/06/1994	Brent East		Signed
Robert Litherland	22/06/1994	Manchester Central		Signed
Lynne Jones	22/06/1994	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Barry Jones	22/06/1994	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
John Heppell	22/06/1994	Nottingham East		Signed
Robert Parry	22/06/1994	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Peter Pike	22/06/1994	Burnley		Signed
Neil Gerrard	23/06/1994	Walthamstow		Signed
Norman Godman	23/06/1994	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Win Griffiths	23/06/1994	Bridgend		Signed
Joe Benton	23/06/1994	Bootle		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	23/06/1994	St Helens South		Signed
Jack Thompson	23/06/1994	Wansbeck		Signed
Keith Vaz	23/06/1994	Leicester East		Signed
Frank Field	23/06/1994	Birkenhead		Signed
Andrew Faulds	23/06/1994	Warley East		Signed
Bill Etherington	23/06/1994	Sunderland North		Signed
Alan Simpson	23/06/1994	Nottingham South		Signed
Peter Hardy	23/06/1994	Wentworth		Signed
Piara S Khabra	23/06/1994	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Eddie Loyden	23/06/1994	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	23/06/1994	Leigh		Signed
John Denham	23/06/1994	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
Jim Dowd	23/06/1994	Lewisham West		Signed
Ann Clwyd	24/06/1994	Cynon Valley		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	24/06/1994	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
William McCrea	27/06/1994	Mid Ulster		Signed
John Evans	27/06/1994	St Helens North		Signed
John Cummings	27/06/1994	Easington		Signed
Edward O'Hara	27/06/1994	Knowsley South		Signed
Alf Morris	27/06/1994	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Tessa Jowell	27/06/1994	Dulwich		Signed
Glenda Jackson	27/06/1994	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Dennis Turner	28/06/1994	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Roger Berry	28/06/1994	Kingswood		Signed
Nick Ainger	28/06/1994	Pembroke		Signed
Bill Olner	28/06/1994	Nuneaton		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	28/06/1994	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
John Hume	28/06/1994	Foyle		Signed
Doug Hoyle	28/06/1994	Warrington North		Signed
Joyce Quin	28/06/1994	Gateshead East		Signed
Martin Redmond	28/06/1994	Don Valley		Signed
Barbara Roche	28/06/1994	Hornsey & Wood Green		Signed
Martin Smyth	28/06/1994	Belfast South		Signed
Kim Howells	28/06/1994	Pontypridd		Signed
Janet Anderson	29/06/1994	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Llin Golding	29/06/1994	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Michael Clapham	29/06/1994	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	29/06/1994	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Richard Caborn	29/06/1994	Sheffield Central		Signed
Keith Bradley	29/06/1994	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Roland Boyes	29/06/1994	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Calum MacDonald	29/06/1994	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
Martyn Jones	29/06/1994	Clwyd South West		Signed
Joan Ruddock	29/06/1994	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Jim Wallace	30/06/1994	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
Audrey Wise	30/06/1994	Preston		Signed
Harry Cohen	01/07/1994	Leyton		Signed
David Alton	01/07/1994	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
Mike O'Brien	04/07/1994	North Warwickshire		Signed
Jim Cunningham	04/07/1994	Coventry South East		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	04/07/1994	Carmarthen		Signed
Brian Sedgemore	05/07/1994	Hackney South & Shoreditch		Signed
Michael Connarty	05/07/1994	Falkirk East		Signed
Neil Kinnock	06/07/1994	Islwyn		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	07/07/1994	Workington		Signed
Chris Mullin	11/07/1994	Sunderland South		Signed
Ieuan Wyn Jones	11/07/1994	Ynys M		Signed
Jean Corston	12/07/1994	Bristol East		Signed
Jeremy Bray	13/07/1994	Motherwell South		Signed
Tony Benn	18/07/1994	Chesterfield		Signed
Alex Salmond	20/07/1994	Banff & Buchan		Signed
John Gunnell	20/07/1994	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Simon Hughes	21/07/1994	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
Peter Hain	31/10/1994	Neath		Signed
Max Madden	01/11/1994	Bradford West		Signed
Dennis Skinner	02/11/1994	Bolsover		Signed

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